Dr V Anantha Nageswaran holds a Post-Graduate Diploma in Management from IIM, Ahmedabad.
Days ahead of the union budget, the government today appointed Dr V Anantha Nageswaran as its Chief Economic Advisor. The advisor is the main architect of the economic survey that is released before the budget every year.
Here's your 5-point guide on the new Chief Economic Advisor:
- Dr. Nageswaran has worked as a writer, author, teacher and consultant. He has taught at several business schools and institutes of management in India and in Singapore and has published extensively.
- He was the Dean of the IFMR Graduate School of Business and a distinguished Visiting Professor of Economics at Krea University. He has also been a part-time member of the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister of India from 2019 to 2021.
- He holds a Post-Graduate Diploma in Management from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad and a doctoral degree from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst.
- He helped co-found the Takshashila Institution, an independent centre for research and education in public policy and helped launch the first impact investment fund of the Aavishkaar Group in 2001.
- His co-authored book, 'Economics of Derivatives' and 'Derivatives' were published by the Cambridge University Press in March 2015 and October 2017 respectively. Another co-authored work, 'Can India grow?' has been published by Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in November 2016. 'The rise of Finance: Causes, Consequences and Cures' published by the Cambridge University Press is his most recent (co-authored) work.
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