Early Life and Education
Vikram Pandit was born in Dhantoli locality of Nagpur, Maharashtra, India to an affluent marathi family. His father, Shankar B. Pandit, was an executive director at Sarabhai Chemicals in Baroda.
He completed his schooling at the Dadar Parsee Youths Assembly High School in Dadar, Mumbai and when he was 16 years old, moved to the United States to attend Columbia University.
As a student, Pandit went to Columbia University for his undergraduate program and in 1976, earned his B.S., electrical engineering degree in only three years. He completed his M.S. in Electrical Engineering in 1977. He then turned to business studies & finance and earned an M.B.A in 1980 followed by a PhD in finance from Columbia Business School in 1986, after publishing a thesis involving a complex financial puzzle, titled "Asset prices in a heterogeneous consumer economy".
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