Arvind Panagariya

Arvind Panagariya
Vice Chairman of NITI Aayog of India
Personal details
Born September 30, 1952
India
Alma mater Rajasthan University, India
Princeton University
Profession Economist

Arvind Panagariya (Hindi: अरविंद पानगड़िया) is the Vice Chairman of Niti Aayog of India. [1] He is an Indian-American economist and Professor of Economics at Columbia University and an ex-Chief Economist at the Asian Development Bank.[2][3][4] In the past, he has been the Chief Economist of the Asian Development Bank and a Professor of Economics and Co-director, Center for International Economics, University of Maryland at College Park. He has also worked for the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, World Trade Organization, and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in various capacities. He holds a Ph.D. degree in Economics from Princeton University.
Panagariya has written/edited ten books. His latest book, India: The Emerging Giant—was published in March 2008 by the Oxford University Press, New York and has been described as the ‘definitive book on the Indian economy’ by Fareed Zakaria and ‘a tour de horizon and a tour de force’ by Jagdish Bhagwati. His previous books include The Economics of Preferential Trade Agreements, 1996, AEI Press (with Jagdish Bhagwati) and Lectures on International Trade, 1998, MIT Press (with J. Bhagwati and T.N. Srinivasan).

Panagariya is an editor of the India Policy Forum, a journal modeled on the Brookings Papers on Economic Activity and jointly published by the Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C. and the National Council on Applied Economic Research, New Delhi. His technical papers have appeared in the American Economic Review, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Review of Economic Studies, Journal of International Economics, and International Economic Review while his policy papers have appeared in the Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, World Economy, Journal of International Affairs and Finance and Development.

Panagariya writes a monthly column in The Economic Times, India’s top financial daily. He has also written guest columns in the Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, The Hindu, India Today and Outlook. He has appeared on numerous national and foreign television channels.

He also features in Bloomberg TV India for the show "Transforming India With Arvind Panagriya"[5]

On Jan 5, 2015, he was appointed as Vice-Chairman of NITI Aayog (or National Institution for Transforming India Aayog), which is the replacement of Planning Commission. [6] NITI Aayog's Chairman is the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi.

References

  1. ↑ http://pib.nic.in/newsite/mbErel.aspx?relid=114338 PIB notice on NITI Aayog
  2. ↑ Arvind Panagariya: The revival of optimism
  3. ↑ Arvind Panagariya: Narendra Modi's real report card
  4. ↑ 5 things you should know about Arvind Panagariya
  5. ↑ Transforming India With Arvind Panagriya
  6. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NITI_Aayog

Sources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NITI_Aayog