Nishith Desai is the founder of the research & strategy driven international law firm, Nishith Desai Associates (www.nishithdesai.com) ranked amongst the Asia-Pacific's Most Innovative Law Firms by Financial Times. Nishith's interest span a wide spectrum of law, society and ethics. Soon after India opened up its economy to the outside world in 1991, Nishith established the first five India Focused Funds and is well renowned for his pioneering efforts in establishing the legal and tax roots for Asset Managers in India back in 1990's He played a seminal role in structuring several private equity funds in addition to structuring several domestic venture capital funds. The firm has now worked for over 1400 funds across all classes of assets. He even assisted the Governments of Mauritius and India in launching their individual offshore financial centers. Combining his love for research with his inherent trait of innovative thinking, Nishith has driven the conceptualization and creation of Imaginarium Aligunjan (www.aligunjan.com) a state-of-the-art facility that stands as an ode to 'Blue Sky Thinking,' near Mumbai. Nishith is a member of the Milken Institute Chairman's Circle.