Soodesh Jowaheer joined Monsoon Capital in 2008 and is the Director of Regulatory Affairs and Compliance. He oversees the firm's compliance obligations across all jurisdictions, including the United States, Mauritius, India and Cyprus, and across all assets classes, including public equity, private equity, debt and real estate.
Before joining Monsoon Capital, Soodesh was a financial regulatory consultant, advising on projects relating to the development of policies and institutional framework for financial system regulation, offshore finance, regulatory compliance and corporate governance. Prior to that, he was Senior Executive (Policy and Research) at the Mauritius Financial Services Commission, where he was involved in the development of regulatory policies, laws, regulations and advisories for financial institutions. Soodesh also holds experience in licensing, compliance monitoring and supervision of non-bank financial institutions.
Soodesh is a Graduate and a Fellow Member the Governance Institute of UK (formerly the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators - ICSA), a UK-based association of corporate governance professionals. Soodesh is also a Member of the Professional Standards Committee of ICSA. He holds an MBA and an Associate Degree in Human Resource Management from the University of Mauritius and a Certificate in Education from the Mauritius Institute of Education.