Jain was born on January 7, 1963, in Jaipur, India, to a civil servant father. He was brought up in the Jain religion. Jain moved to New Delhi with his father when he was six years old and attended Delhi Public School, Mathura Road.
He earned a BA in economics from the University of Delhi’s Shri Ram College of Commerce in 1983. At the age of 19, he moved to the United States, where he earned an MBA in finance from the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he studied with Thomas Schneeweis, an expert in alternative investments such as futures, options, and derivatives.
How did Anshu Jain die?
Jain died of stomach cancer in the United Kingdom on August 12, 2022. He was 59 years old. Since his death, a lot of sympathizers, friends, and well-wishers have paid tribute to him stating the good thing he did and how great he was.
Anshu Jain was survived by a wife and two children. His wife, Geetika Jain is a writer, blogger, and photographer who currently writes for Mint Lounge, an Indian business newspaper’s Sunday magazine, and Conde Nast Traveller India.