Gunjan Chauhan

Gunjan is a Senior Managing Director at State Street Global Advisors (SSGA), and Global Head of ETF Capital Markets and Markets Intelligence, bringing over 20years of industry experience to her role. She is also a member of State Street Global Advisors Senior Leadership Team and Executive Management Group.
As head of ETF Capital Markets and Markets Intelligence, Gunjan she is responsible for defining and executing the strategic direction of the ETF Capital Markets team, supporting $1.4 trillion in ETFs globally, whilst leading our efforts to enhance data-driven decision-making. Working closely with a wide range of partners, including investors, market makers, broker-dealers, exchanges and technology providers, she is focussed on initiatives to improve data driven decision making and the client experience when trading ETFs, working across the industry and ETF Eco-system.
Prior to leading the ETF Capital Markets business in September 2019, Gunjan was Head of SSGA's Cash Business EMEA & APAC, part of a global team running cash investments totalling $350bn for corporate and institutional clients including hedge- and sovereign wealth funds. In this role she was responsible for all Cash related client-facing activities including sales, strategy, operations and services, growing SSGA’s EMEA Cash business whilst navigating European Money Market Fund reform and building out SSGA’s APAC Cash Business.
Before joining SSGA, Gunjan was at the Royal Bank of Scotland, where she progressed through their graduate program, to become Managing Director, and EMEA Head of Credit & Treasury Markets. In this role, she was responsible for leading a team, primarily focused on financial institutions and corporate clients investing in short duration fixed income products.
As a passionate advocate for inclusion and diversity, Gunjan previously served as co-chair of State Street’s EMEA Inclusion and Diversity network, and was a founding member of the RBS’s Corporate & Institutional Banking Women’s network. She is actively involved in initiatives to foster the advancement of diverse talent across Financial Services.
Gunjan graduated with her B.A (hons) in 2003 from University College London and earned her MBA from Bayes Business School in 2013.