Jayant Sinha

Jayant Sinha
Jayant Sinha
Sinha in November 2014
Minister of State for Civil Aviation
In office
5 July 2016 – 30 May 2019
Prime MinisterNarendra Modi
Preceded byMahesh Sharma
Succeeded byHardeep Singh Puri (as MoS Independent charge)
Minister of State for Finance
In office
9 November 2014 – 5 July 2016
Prime MinisterNarendra Modi
Preceded byNirmala Sitharaman
Succeeded byArjun Ram Meghwal and Santosh Gangwar
Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha
In office
16 May 2014 – 4 June 2024
Preceded byYashwant Sinha
Succeeded byManish Jaiswal
ConstituencyHazaribagh
Personal details
Born (1963-04-21) 21 April 1963 (age 61)
Giridih, Bihar, (now in Jharkhand), India
Political partyBharatiya Janata Party
SpousePunita Kumar Sinha[1]
Parent(s)Yashwant Sinha
Nilima Sinha
Alma materIIT Delhi (BTech)
University of Pennsylvania (MS)
Harvard Business School (MBA)

Jayant Sinha (born 21 April 1963) is an Indian politician who is a Member of the Indian Parliament and formerly the Minister of State for Finance and the Minister of State for Civil Aviation in the Government of India. Sinha is currently the chairperson of the Standing Committee on Finance and a member of the Public Accounts Committee for 2019–20. He has also been an investment fund manager and management consultant. He is also a member of the Board of Advisors of India's International Movement to Unite Nations.[2]

In May 2014, he was elected to the Lok Sabha, representing the Bharatiya Janata Party from Hazaribagh, Jharkhand.[3] In the 2019 general elections, Sinha was re-elected as Member of Parliament from the same constituency with a record majority.[4]

Sinha's prior business experience includes twelve years with McKinsey & Company as a partner in the Boston and Delhi offices. At McKinsey, Sinha co-led the global Software and IT Services practice. He was most recently a partner at Omidyar Network. Sinha led ON's overall investment strategy and operations in India. He also spent several years as a managing director at Courage Capital, a global special situations hedge fund.

  1. ^ "Being Mrs Sinha". 4 February 2022. Archived from the original on 30 August 2022. Retrieved 30 August 2022.
  2. ^ "I.I.M.U.N. || Board of Advisors". new.iimun.in. Retrieved 29 July 2023.
  3. ^ "Election commission of India". Archived from the original on 21 May 2014. Retrieved 4 February 2016.
  4. ^ "Hazaribagh Lok Sabha election results 2019 Jharkhand: BJP's Jayant Sinha wins by 4,78,209 votes". 23 May 2019.

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