The Government has appointed Dr V. Anantha Nageswaran as the Chief Economic Advisor and today, he has assumed charge, just ahead of presenting the Annual Economic Survey and also the Union Budget.
Prior to this appointment, 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.
The Chief Economic Advisor is normally responsible for drafting the Economic Survey. However, the 2021-22 Economic Survey which is scheduled to be tabled in the parliament on January 31, has been drafted by a team led by Principal Economic Advisor Sanjeev Sanyal
