Delhi School of Economics
Department of Economics
Announce
A Public Lecture by
Arvind Subramanian
The Economic Survey, 2014-15
Economics Lecture Theatre, Delhi School of Economics Tuesday, 3rd March 2015 at 3 pm
Dr Arvind Subramanian is Chief Economic Adviser, Government of India. Before taking over as CEA in October 2014, Dr. Subramanian served as the Dennis Weatherstone Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics and a Senior Fellow at the Center for Global Development, both located in Washington DC. He was earlier 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 Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government (1999–2000) and at Johns Hopkins' School for Advanced International Studies (2008–10).
Dr Subramanian is a widely cited expert on the economics of India, China, and the changing balance of global economic power. He has also written extensively on growth, trade, development, institutions, aid, oil, India, Africa, and the World Trade Organization. He is the author of two books, India's Turn: Understanding the Economic Transformation (2008), and Eclipse: Living in the Shadow of China's Economic Dominance (2011), and co-author of Who Needs to Open the Capital Account? (2012). Foreign Policy magazine named him as one of the world's top 100 global thinkers in 2011. He advises the Indian government in different capacities, including as a member of the Finance Minister's Expert Group on the G-20.
Dr. Subramanian obtained his undergraduate degree from St. Stephens College, Delhi; his MBA from the Indian Institute of Management at Ahmedabad, India; and his M.Phil and D.Phil from the University of Oxford, UK.
