Brief Profile:

Dr. Arvind Subramanian is currently the Chief Economic Advisor to the Government of India. He is on leave for public service from his position as the Dennis Weatherstone Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, USA. He also served as Senior Fellow at the Center for Global Development. He was earlier an Assistant Director in the Research Department of the International Monetary Fund. He served at the GATT (1988-"92) during the Uruguay Round of trade negotiations and taught at the Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government (1999-"2000) and at Johns Hopkins' School for Advanced International Studies (2008-"10). He has written on growth, trade, development, institutions, aid, oil, India, Africa, and the World Trade Organization. He has published widely in academic and other journals. Foreign Policy magazine named him as one of the world's top 100 global thinkers in 2011.