Jagdish Natwarlal Bhagwati is an Indian-born naturalized American economist and one of the most influential trade theorists of his generation. He is a University Professor of economics and law at Columbia University and a Senior Fellow in International Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations. He has made significant contributions to international trade theory and economic development.
The Lerner symmetry theorem is a result used in international trade theory,which states that an ad valorem import tariff will have the same effects as an export tax. The theorem is based on the observation that the effect on relative prices is the same regardless of which policy is applied.
Delhi School of Economics (DSE),popularly referred to as D School,is an institution of higher learning within the University of Delhi. The Delhi School of Economics is situated in University of Delhi's North Campus in Maurice Nagar. Established in 1949,the campus of the Delhi School of Economics houses the University of Delhi's departments of Economics,Sociology,Geography and Commerce,as well as the Ratan Tata Library. Out of the four academic departments,the Departments of Economics,Sociology and Geography come under the Faculty of Social Sciences,while the Department of Commerce comes under the Faculty of Commerce and Business Studies.
Abraham "Abba" Ptachya Lerner was a Russian-born American-British economist.
The School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) is the international affairs and public policy school of Columbia University,a private Ivy League university located in Morningside Heights,Manhattan,New York City. SIPA offers Master of International Affairs (MIA) and Master of Public Administration (MPA) degrees in a range of fields,as well as the Executive MPA and PhD program in Sustainable Development.
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.
Bibek Debroy is an Indian economist,serving as the chairman of the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister of India. He is also the Chairman of the Finance Ministry's 'Expert Committee for Infrastructure Classification and Financing Framework for Amrit Kaal'. Debroy has made significant contributions to game theory,economic theory,income and social inequalities,poverty,law reforms,railway reforms and Indology among others. Bibek Debroy's recent co-authored magnum opus,Inked in India,stands distinguished as the premier comprehensive documentation,capturing the entirety of recognized fountain pen,nib,and ink manufacturers in India. He is also an anchor for the fortnightly show Itihasa on Sansad TV.
Nand Kishore Singh is an Indian politician,economist and former Indian Administrative Service officer. He is a senior member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) since March 2014 after having served as a Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha (2008-2014) from Bihar for the Janata Dal (United). He has been a senior bureaucrat,Member of the Planning Commission and handled assignments of Union Expenditure and Revenue Secretary. He was also Officer on Special Duty to Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
Pravin Krishna is Chung Ju Yung Distinguished Professor of International Economics and Business at the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and the Department of Economics in the Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences at Johns Hopkins University. Krishna holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Columbia University and a B. Tech in Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology,Bombay. He is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and serves on the editorial board of the Journal of International Economics. Krishna was previously Professor of Economics at Brown University and has held academic appointments at Princeton University,Stanford University and the University of Chicago.
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.
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.
Arvind Subramanian is an Indian economist and the former Chief Economic Advisor to the Government of India,having served from 16 October 2014 to 20 June 2018. Subramanian is currently a Senior Fellow at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University. He previously served as Professor of Economics at Ashoka University and a Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics and Center for Global Development.
Padma Desai was an Indian-American development economist who was the Gladys and Roland Harriman Professor of comparative economic systems and director of the Center for Transition Economies at Columbia University. Known for her scholarship on Soviet and Indian industrial policy,she was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 2009.
Rahul Khullar was an IAS officer of the 1975 batch and a former Chairman of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI).
National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER) is India’s oldest and largest independent,non-profit,economic policy research think tank. Established in New Delhi in 1956,it acquired considerable national and international standing within only a few decades of its founding. It is one of a handful of think tanks globally that combine rigorous analysis and policy outreach with deep data collection capabilities,especially for household surveys.
The NITI Aayog serves as the apex public policy think tank of the Government of India,and the nodal agency tasked with catalyzing economic development,and fostering cooperative federalism and moving away from bargaining federalism through the involvement of State Governments of India in the economic policy-making process using a bottom-up approach. Its initiatives include "15-year road map","7-year vision,strategy,and action plan",AMRUT,Digital India,Atal Innovation Mission,Medical Education Reform,agriculture reforms,Indices Measuring States’Performance in Health,Education and Water Management,Sub-Group of Chief Ministers on Rationalization of Centrally Sponsored Schemes,Sub-Group of Chief Ministers on Swachh Bharat Abhiyan,Sub-Group of Chief Ministers on Skill Development,Task Forces on Agriculture and up of Poverty,and Transforming India Lecture Series.
V. R. Panchamukhi,is an Indian Economist and Sanskrit scholar. He was born on September 17, 1936,in Dharwad,Karnataka. He is the eldest son of Vidyaratna Shri R. S. Panchamukhi,an archaeologist and indologist and Sanskrit Scholar.
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.
Suman Bery is an Indian economist,academic,and writer who is the Vice Chairman of NITI Aayog. After serving at the World Bank for 28 years,Bery served as the Chief Economist of Oil and Gas supermajor Royal Dutch Shell,based in The Hague,Netherlands. He is a Global Fellow in the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington DC and a Non-resident Fellow of Brussels based think tank Bruegel. He was the former director general of National Council of Applied Economic Research and the former Indian country director of International Growth Centre.
Sixteenth Finance Commission is the Finance Commission constituted by Government of India under Article 280 of Constitution. Arvind Panagariya has been appointed as the Chief of the commission with the main task of determining revenue sharing between Central Government and State Government for a period of five years from April 1,2026.
