Apr 9, 2021
Dr. Krishnamurthy Subramanian currently the Chief Economic Advisor to the Government of India,n is a leading expert on economic policy, banking, and corporate governance. A PhD from Chicago-Booth and a top-ranking IIT-IIM alumnus, he authored the path-breaking Economic Survey that commends “Ethical Wealth Creation” for a prosperous India. His idea of Thalinomics – what a common person pays for a vegetarian or non-vegetarian thali – has been acclaimed as the Indian Big Mac Index. The slew of reforms implemented in the COVID economic package draw on key reform ideas advocated by him in the Economic Surveys of 2019 and 2020. He was also awarded the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation Dissertation Fellowship – an award given to top 20 PhD dissertations across all disciplines at the University of Chicago. He is currently on leave from the prestigious Indian School of Business, where he is a Professor of Finance. Dr. Subramanian has worked with leading financial firms s
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The central government will present the Economic Survey 2021, which sets the stage for the Union Budget, on Friday. The government’s Chief Economic Advisor is the mastermind of the document, which is tabled in both Houses of the Parliament, and reviews the vital elements of the Indian economy over the previous financial year.
Krishnamurthy Subramanian, chief economic adviser, is scheduled to hold a press conference to the discuss the survey after Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman tables the survey in Parliament today.
The document, which is tabled in both Houses of the Parliament, reviews the developments that took place in the Indian economy over the past financial year. It comprises of Volume I, Volume II and the statistical appendix.
About the Speaker: Dr. Krishnamurthy Subramanian, currently the Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India, is a leading expert on economic policy, banking and corporate governance. In his role as Chief Economic Adviser, he has authored India’s 2019 Economic Survey and 2020 Economic Survey, the flagship annual document of the Ministry of Finance. His academic articles span various topics, including corporate governance, bankruptcy, and banking deregulation, and have appeared in a range of peer-reviewed journals including Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, and Journal of Law and Economics. He has previously served on several expert committees including the P.J. Nayak Committee on governance of banks for the Reserve Bank of India and the Uday Kotak Corporate Governance Committee of Securities and Exchange Board of India. He was also the Founding Board Member at Bandhan Bank (2015-18).