The National Investment and Infrastructure Fund (NIIF), one of India's largest institutional infrastructure investment platforms, has appointed Gauravjit Singh as managing partner and global head of capital formation, the fund confirmed on September 7, 2026. Singh joins from PAG, the Asia-focused alternative investment firm, where he led investor relations and fundraising for the private equity business out of Singapore, giving him direct experience raising institutional capital across pan-Asian and global alternative investment strategies.
In his new role, Singh will oversee capital formation across NIIF's various investment strategies, spanning infrastructure, private equity and strategic opportunities funds, with a specific mandate to expand both the fund's domestic and international institutional investor base. NIIF has, since its establishment as a quasi-sovereign vehicle backed by the Government of India alongside marquee global investors, positioned itself as a bridge between long-duration Indian infrastructure assets and the pools of patient capital held by sovereign wealth funds, pension funds and insurance companies globally — a matchmaking role that has become increasingly central to financing India's continued infrastructure build-out.
Singh brings close to two decades of experience in institutional fundraising spanning global, India-focused and pan-Asian alternative investment strategies, a background that aligns closely with NIIF's current fundraising priorities as it looks to raise successor vehicles and deepen relationships with the kind of large, long-horizon limited partners that infrastructure investing demands. His appointment comes at a moment when competition for global infrastructure capital has intensified, with sovereign funds and pension investors increasingly weighing opportunities across multiple emerging markets rather than defaulting to India, making experienced, globally networked fundraising leadership an increasingly important differentiator for platforms like NIIF.
The appointment underscores NIIF's continued institution-building as it matures from a government-anchored vehicle into a globally recognised infrastructure investment platform in its own right. How quickly Singh can translate his fundraising track record into closed commitments for NIIF's next vintage of funds will be an early marker of the appointment's impact, particularly as global institutional investors weigh India's infrastructure opportunity against competing allocations across other emerging and developed markets.
