John Harold Williamson was a British-born economist who coined the term Washington Consensus. He served as a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics from 1981 until his retirement in 2012. During that time,he was the project director for the United Nations High-Level Panel on Financing for Development in 2001. He was also on leave as chief economist for South Asia at the World Bank during 1996–99,adviser to the International Monetary Fund from 1972 to 1974,and an economic consultant to the UK Treasury from 1968 to 1970. He was also an economics professor at Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (1978–81),University of Warwick (1970–77),Massachusetts Institute of Technology,University of York (1963–68) and Princeton University (1962–63).
The Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs is an interdisciplinary research center at Brown University in Providence,Rhode Island. Its mission is to promote a just and peaceful world through research,teaching,and public engagement. The institute's research focuses on three main areas:development,security,and governance. Its faculty include anthropologists,economists,political scientists,sociologists,and historians,as well as journalists and other practitioners.
Raghuram Govind Rajan is an Indian economist and the Katherine Dusak Miller Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business. Between 2003 and 2006 he was Chief Economist and director of research at the International Monetary Fund. From September 2013 through September 2016 he was the 23rd Governor of the Reserve Bank of India. In 2015,during his tenure at the RBI,he became the Vice-Chairman of the Bank for International Settlements.
Kaushik Basu is an Indian economist who was Chief Economist of the World Bank from 2012 to 2016 and Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India from 2009 to 2012. He is the C. Marks Professor of International Studies and Professor of Economics at Cornell University,and academic advisory board member of upcoming Plaksha University. He began a three-year term as President of the International Economic Association in June 2017. From 2009 to 2012,during the United Progressive Alliance's second term,Basu served as the Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India. Basu is winner of the Humboldt Research Award 2021.
Pratap Bhanu Mehta is an Indian academician. He was the president of the Centre for Policy Research,a New Delhi-based think tank and was the Vice-Chancellor of Ashoka University from July 2017 to July 2019.
Indraprasad Gordhanbhai Patel,popularly known as I. G. Patel,was an Indian economist and a civil servant who served as the fourteenth Governor of the Reserve Bank of India from 1 December 1977 to 15 September 1982.
Arvind Panagariya is an Indian economist who is the Jagdish Bhagwati Professor of Indian Political Economy at Columbia University and is also the Director of Deepak and Neera Raj Center on Indian Economic Policies at School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University in New York City. He served as first vice-chairman of the government of India think-tank NITI Aayog between January 2015 and August 2017. He has been appointed as the chairman of 16th Finance Commission by the government of India. He is a former Chief Economist of the Asian Development Bank. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan by the President of India in 2012 for his contributions in the field of economics and Public Policy. He has published widely on free trade as well as on the development of the Indian economy.
Rakesh Mohan is an Indian economist and former Deputy Governor of Reserve Bank of India. He is the Vice Chairperson of Indian Institute for Human Settlements. He was appointed in November 2012 as an executive director of the IMF for a three-year term,and in April 2010,he joined NestléIndia,as a non-executive director.
Ila Patnaik is an Indian economist. and former Principal Economic Advisor to the Government of India. During this time,she prepared the Economic Survey of India,2013-14 and contributed to numerous Government of India committees and task forces. In 2014,she was the only female economist ranked within the top ten in India,along with the likes of Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen and former RBI governors Y V Reddy,Raghuram Rajan and Urjit Patel. She also writes regular columns for The Indian Express.
The Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management Act,2003 (FRBMA) is an Act of the Parliament of India to institutionalize financial discipline,reduce India's fiscal deficit,improve macroeconomic management and the overall management of the public funds by moving towards a balanced budget and strengthen fiscal prudence. The main purpose was to eliminate revenue deficit of the country and bring down the fiscal deficit to a manageable 3% of the GDP by March 2008. However,due to the 2007 international financial crisis,the deadlines for the implementation of the targets in the act was initially postponed and subsequently suspended in 2009. In 2011,given the process of ongoing recovery,Economic Advisory Council publicly advised the Government of India to reconsider reinstating the provisions of the FRBMA. N. K. Singh is currently the Chairman of the review committee for Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management Act,2003,under the Ministry of Finance (India),Government of India.
Arvind Virmani is an Indian economist and full time Member of NITI Aayog. He was appointed India's representative to the International Monetary Fund in 2009. Prior to that,he was the Chief Economic Advisor to the Government of India.
The Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India (CEA) advises the government on economic matters and is responsible for the preparation of the Economic survey of India tabled in Parliament before the Union budget of India is presented. The CEA holds the rank of a Secretary to the Government of India.
Urjit Patel is a Kenyan-born Indian economist,who formerly served as the 24th Governor of the Reserve Bank of India and also Deputy Governor of Reserve Bank of India,looking after monetary policy,economic research,financial markets,statistics and information management. He resigned from his post on 10 December 2018,being the first RBI governor to state personal reasons as a driving factor for resigning.
Ashoka Mody is an Indian-American economist. He is the Charles and Marie Robertson visiting professor in international economic policy and lecturer in public and international affairs at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs.
The Fifteenth Finance Commission is an Indian Finance Commission constituted in November 2017 and is to give recommendations for devolution of taxes and other fiscal matters for five fiscal years,commencing 2020-04-01. The commission's chairman is Nand Kishore Singh,a senior member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) since March 2014,with its full-time members being Ajay Narayan Jha,Ashok Lahiri and Anoop Singh. In addition,the commission also has a part-time member in Ramesh Chand.
Rajiv Kumar is an Indian economist who had served as the second vice-chairman of the NITI Aayog. He also serves as the chancellor of Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics,Pune His earlier stint in government was initially with the Ministry of Industry and subsequently in the Ministry of Finance,as economic advisor during the reform years of 1991-1994. He has wide experience of having worked in government,academia,industry associations,as well as in international financial institutions. He also served as an independent director on the central boards of the Reserve Bank of India and the State Bank of India.
Krishnamurthy Venkata Subramanian is an Indian economist who served as the 17th Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India. Subramanian is a leading expert on economic policy,banking and corporate governance,who was the youngest Chief Economic Advisor to the Government of India,serving from 2018 to 2021. He has been appointed to the post of India's Executive Director at the IMF,with effect from November 1,2022.
Surjit Bhalla is a prominent Indian economist,author,and columnist with extensive experience in both the national and international economic policy arenas. His tenure as the Executive Director for India at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) highlights his global economic expertise and contributions to international financial discussions. Bhalla has also been an influential member of the Economic Advisory Council to the second Modi ministry,where his insights and analyses have played a crucial role in advising on economic matters facing India.
Ashok Kumar Lahiri is an Indian economist and a member of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly from Balurghat. He is currently serving as a member of the Fifteenth Finance Commission. Lahiri previously served as 12th Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India,reader at the Delhi School of Economics,chairman of Bandhan Bank,executive director at the Asian Development Bank and director of the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy and had stints with the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund,as a consultant and senior economist respectively. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
Venkatramanan Anantha Nageswaran is an Indian economist and the 18th Chief Economic Advisor to the Government of India. He served as the global Chief Investment Officer at Bank Julius Baer in Switzerland after serving as its Head of Research for Asia. Prior to this,he worked for Credit Suisse in Switzerland and Singapore,and for the Union Bank of Switzerland. He has served as the Dean of IFMR Graduate School of Business,as a professor for graduate students at the Singapore Management University,and at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore &Indian Institute of Management Indore.
