Jayant Sinha, an investment strategist and Harvard-IIT alumni (Profile)

The son of senior BJP leader and former minister Yashwant Sinha, Jayant Sinha, 51, was elected to the Lok Sabha this year from Hazaribagh in Jharkhand.

Prior to joining the union council of ministers Sunday, Jayant was a member of two key parliamentary committees, on public accounts and on finance. He was part of the team that worked with Prime Minister Narendra Modi to help frame national economic policy.

Jayant Sinha holds Master's degrees in business administration from the Harvard Business School and in energy management and policy from the University of Pennsylvania after graduating from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi.

After spending nearly 25 years in Boston and Philadelphia, Jayant Sinha returned to fight his maiden elections from Hazaribagh parliamentary constituency that includes the Chhota Nagpur area, which is home to mines and industrial towns and the Santhal tribes.

Sinha's career as an investor and strategy consultant includes 12 years with McKinsey and Company as a partner in their Boston and Delhi offices. At McKinsey, Sinha co-led the global software and IT services outreach.

He was most recently a partner at an investment firm Omidyar Network, where he led their overall investment strategy and operations in India. He also spent many years as managing director at Courage Capital, a global special situations hedge.

Sinha is an old friend of Reserve Bank of India Governor Raghuram Rajan from their time together at IIT - Delhi.