About the Speaker:

Arvind Subramanian is senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE).Previously, he has taught at Brown, Ashoka and Harvard Universities. He served as the chief economic advisor to the government of India between 2014 and 2018. He currently also advises state governments in India on macro-economic, fiscal and sectoral issues. Foreign Policy magazine named him one of the world's top 100 global thinkers in 2011. His latest book (co-authored with Devesh Kapur), A Sixth of Humanity: Independent India’s Development Odyssey, was a Financial Times book of the year.

As chief economic adviser, his annual Economic Survey of India, became a widely read document on Indian economic policy and development. The 2018 Survey had 20 million views from over 190 countries in its first year of publication. He was closely involved in the design of the nation-wide Goods and Services Tax (GST) and several other policy initiatives. His reflections on his tenure were published as “Of Counsel: The Challenges of the Jaitley-Modi Economy.” His critically acclaimed book, Eclipse: Living in the Shadow of China's Economic Dominance sold over 130,000 copies and was translated into 4 languages.