Kunal Khara, CFA

Kunal Khara, CFA, Managing Director, is the Head of the Americas for the BlackRock Financial Markets Advisory (FMA) group. FMA supports clients across a range of advisory services focusing primarily on balance sheet management, capital markets and transaction support, data and analytics, and risk and regulatory matters.

Prior to joining FMA in 2012, Mr. Khara was a senior member of the Market Analytics team within BRS, responsible for managing and evolving the analytics platform and serving as a subject matter expert on risk analytics and financial models, with an emphasis on securitized products. Mr. Khara began his career at BlackRock as an analyst in 2007 as a member of the Portfolio Analytics Group where he performed portfolio risk analyses focusing on mortgage, structured, and derivative products for various commercial banks. Prior to working at BlackRock, Mr. Khara was a Senior Analyst at ALM First Financial Advisors, a firm that provides investment advisory and ALM services to credit unions and co-operative banks.

Mr. Khara earned a BS in Business Administration, summa cum laude, with a finance concentration from the University of Texas, Dallas in 2004. He is a CFA charterholder.