Sanjay Chawla

Sanjay Chawla Executive Vice President, Chief Investment Officer, FM Sanjay Chawla leads all of the company's investment portfolio management functions. Assets under management include general account assets in excess of US$35 billion. Based in Greater Boston area, Massachusetts, USA, Chawla is also involved in corporate strategic initiatives. He joined the company in 2018 as senior vice president of investments. A year later, he was ranked among the 10 most innovative and influential corporate CIOs worldwide, according to Chief Investment Officer (CIO), an industry-leading news website.

More recently, Chawla was also named to the 2026 Elite Institutional CIO’s group, by the Markets Group. Prior to working at FM, Chawla was at the Raytheon Company, where he joined in August 2013 and was vice president and chief investment officer of Raytheon's pension investments. Prior to Raytheon, he was at The Dow Chemical Company for 18 years. There he held various leadership roles in finance—primarily portfolio investments and treasury—including global asset allocation, enterprise-wide and financial risk management, and also on expatriate assignments in Asia.

Chawla received an MBA from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Virginia, USA, and a bachelor's degree in commerce (honors) from Shri Ram College of Commerce, Delhi University, India.

During his career, Chawla has also completed Executive Leadership programs run by Duke Corporate Education, Thunderbird, and Indiana Universities.