Sanjeev Sanyal, economist, author and former global strategist and Managing Director of Deutshe Bank, has been appointed as the principal economic adviser in the finance ministry.
A notification by the department of personnel and training (DoPT) on Feb 3 2017 said Sanyal has been appointed on contract for a three-year period from the date of assumption of charge of the post or until further orders.
He has authored several books such as:- Land of the Seven Rivers: A Brief History of India’s Geography, The Indian Renaissance: India’s Rise After a Thousand Years of Decline,
- The Incredible History of India’s Geography and
- The Ocean of Churn.
He will effectively serve as the deputy to Chief Economic Advisor Arvind Subramanian.
Sanyal, an alumnus of Delhi’s Shri Ram College of Commerce and the University of Oxford, has worked extensively in global financial markets.
The World Economic Forum named him the Young Global Leader 2010.
Sanyal is also an Advisor at Aavishkaar India Micro Venture Capital Fund.
- He is an Adjunct Fellow at the Institute of Policy Studies (Singapore);
- Visiting Fellow at Oxford University (UK),
- Chief Advisor at Asia-Pacific to the John Templeton Foundation,
- Director of the Green Accounting for Indian States Project, and
- Member of the Governing Council of the Economic Society of Singapore.
In 2008, CNBC have him the title of a "Young Turk" in recognition of his contributions to Asia's financial markets.
The Singapore government honoured him as a Young Leader 2014 at the World Cities Summit held in June 2014.
Ila Patnaik, professor at the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP), a government funded think-tank, was the previous Principal Economic Advisor.
Sanjeev Sanyal: Know More- Sanjeev Sanyal is an Indian economist, bestselling writer, environmentalist, and urban theorist.
- He is widely regarded as one of Asia's leading economists.
- He was Deutsche Bank's Global Strategist and a Managing Director till 2015.
- A Rhodes Scholar and Eisenhower Fellow, he was named "Young Global Leader 2010" by the World Economic Forum at Davos.
- He is also the author of four best selling books.
