Rishiraj Sethi, CFA

Rishiraj Sethi co-founded Aura Art in 2008, which is well on its way to become India’s leading Integrated Art House – catalysing collection building (www.auraart.in) and management (www.artinfrasolutions.com).  He pursued his CA (all India rank holder) and CFA (US), while working for 11 years with Andersen / EY (1997-2008), in Taxation and Investment Banking.  Since then, he has significantly focussed on research, creating awareness of Art as an asset class, documenting and valuing collections and promoting artists of calibre.  He is now recognised as a thought leader in the art space, co-authoring publications “The science behind valuing art” (December 2017) and “ArTax – Managing tax risks of artworks” (August 2018) alongwith EY, “ArtIP – Art of creating Intellectual Property” (August 2019) with International Legal Alliance (ILA), reports on “ArTrends” (October 2019 and April 2020), report on “Art Insurance” (December 2021), “Art Law E-Book” alongwith Dentons Link Legal (December 2024) and “Aura Art Digest” (June 2025).  He also jointly developed the first-of-its-kind IIMA-AuraArt Indian Art Index (IAIAI), alongwith Prof Prashant Das, Faculty Member, Finance and Accounting, IIMA (launched in November 2022).  His entrepreneurial journey has been widely featured and he has won various accolades for professionalising the Indian art market.  Besides being involved in various community service projects, his other interests include dancing, singing, writing poetry and Heartfulness meditation.