Akshay Mathur is the Senior Director, Asia Society Policy Institute based in New Delhi responsible for the institute's policy mandate in India.

His area of expertise is Geoeconomics, specifically international financial architecture, global trading system, global economic governance, and global digital governance.

He is also concurrently a Non-Resident Senior Fellow with the Digital Economy Programme at the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) based in Canada.

Previously, Akshay has led Mumbai-based, business-supported, independent foreign policy think tanks - Gateway House and Observer Research Foundation Mumbai.

He has written columns for Indian and foreign news publications, led Indian government-supported Track Two dialogues with other countries, published research for various Indian and global think tanks, and convened and spoken at several Indian and global forums on international, domestic, and local policymaking.

He represented India at the inaugural cohort of the Asia Global Fellows programme for mid-career leaders in the field of global policymaking hosted by the Asia Global Institute in Hong Kong in 2017 and the Georgetown University’s Young Leaders Forum in Qatar in 2012

Akshay has advanced degrees in policy, business and technology, specifically an MPA from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University as the Edward Mason Fellow, an MBA from Boston University’s Questrom School of Business with concentration in Finance and Business Analysis, and a B.S. in Computer Science from the Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.