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Dr Rajiv Kumar
Vice Chairman NITI Aayog | Chief Economist CII
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Dr. Rajiv Kumar took over as Vice Chairman NITI Aayog on 1 September 2017. He also serves as the Chancellor of Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Pune. He has wide experience of having worked in government, academia, industry as well as in multilateral institutions. A founding director of Pahle India Foundation, a non-government research initiative, Dr. Kumar was a Senior Fellow at CPR and earlier the CEO of Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER).
He
has also been Chief Economist at CII and Secretary General of Federation of
Indian Chamber of Commerce & Industry (FICCI). He was a professor at Indian
Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT). In the government, he was Economic Advisor
with Department of Economic Affairs (DEA), Ministry of Finance and Senior
Consultant at the Bureau of Industrial Costs and Prices (BICP), Ministry of
Industry. He was Principal Economist at Asian Development Bank, Manila where he
spent 10 years. He has also served on many Boards including that of RBI and
SBI. Dr. Kumar has a Ph.D. in Economics from Lucknow University and a D. Phil.
From Oxford University.
Who am I
Dr. Rajiv Kumar took over as Vice Chairman NITI Aayog on 1 September 2017. He also serves as the Chancellor of Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Pune. He has wide experience of having worked in government, academia, industry as well as in multilateral institutions. A founding director of Pahle India Foundation, a non-government research initiative, Dr. Kumar was a Senior Fellow at CPR and earlier the CEO of Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER).
He
has also been Chief Economist at CII and Secretary General of Federation of
Indian Chamber of Commerce & Industry (FICCI). He was a professor at Indian
Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT). In the government, he was Economic Advisor
with Department of Economic Affairs (DEA), Ministry of Finance and Senior
Consultant at the Bureau of Industrial Costs and Prices (BICP), Ministry of
Industry. He was Principal Economist at Asian Development Bank, Manila where he
spent 10 years. He has also served on many Boards including that of RBI and
SBI. Dr. Kumar has a Ph.D. in Economics from Lucknow University and a D. Phil.
From Oxford University.
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