Ajit Ketkar is a Portfolio Manager for Global Real Estate Securities, responsible for research coverage of real estate companies in North America.

Prior to joining the portfolio-management team, he was a senior research analyst responsible for covering real estate and financial companies. Before joining AB in 2007, Ketkar was a first vice president of retail distribution strategy at Washington Mutual Bank.

Prior to that, he was a consultant with Boston Consulting Group and a manager at ICICI Bank in India.

Ketkar holds a BE in computer science with Distinction from the University of Bombay; a post-graduate diploma in management from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta; and an MBA with Honors from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.