Sharma has told interviewers he spent his early school years in Mumbai, Delhi, and Singapore. He did his undergraduate studies at the Shri Ram College of Commerce in Delhi, and afterward joined a securities trading company, and in 1991 he launched a column called For Ex, first for The Observer, later for The Economic Times of India. His writings attracted the attention of Morgan Stanley, which hired him in its Mumbai office in 1996. In 2002 he moved to the New York office, which remains his base today.[2] In 2003 he became cohead of the emerging markets team at Morgan Stanley Investment Management. In 2006 he became head of the team.[3]
Breakout Nations: In Pursuit of the next Economic Miracles is a 2012 book written by Sharma. The book discusses his views on Emerging Markets and his travel through these countries.[4] Sales of the book has broken records[5] and has become an international best seller.[6] Breakout Nations has received extensive global media coverage, including The Economist,[7] The Washington Post,[8] and The Wall Street Journal.[9]
In Breakout Nations, Sharma writes that he travels in emerging markets for roughly one week out of every month, in order to understand what is happening in the economy up close. He used those travels as the basis for his monthly columns in The Economic Times, and later became a regular columnist for Newsweek International, as well a contributor to the Wall Street Journal and other global publications. More recently, Sharma's articles and columns have appeared in Foreign Affairs, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, Time, Foreign Policy, Forbes, The Bloomberg View, and other publications.[10]
