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Suresh Goyal
Director General
Arvind Panagariya
Visiting Distinguished Professor
Barry Eichengreen
Visiting Distinguished Professor
Sonalde Desai
Professor and Director, NCAER-National Data Innovation Centre (NDIC)
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Visiting Professor
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Senior Advisor
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HR Executive
Suresh Goyal is the Director General of National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER) effective January 5th, 2026.
Mr Suresh Goyal has over 30 years of experience across the private and public sectors. He joins NCAER after his assignment as the Managing Director and CEO of the National Highway Infra Trust (NHIT), which was set up by the Ministry of Road Transport & Highways and the National Highways Authority of India to support the National Monetisation Pipeline. Starting as the first employee in 2020, Mr Suresh Goyal built NHIT into one of the largest road platforms, with an enterprise value of ~INR 48,000 crore, thereby contributing significantly to the government’s monetisation agenda. He successfully managed multiple stakeholders, including a 10-member board comprising government, institutions, and independent directors, steering NHIT to deliver consistent performance. Before moving to the government role, Mr Goyal had spent his career in the private sector, with his last stint at Macquarie Infrastructure & Real Assets as Senior Managing Director and Head of India and South-East Asia, based in Singapore.
Mr Goyal is an Electrical Engineer and has an MBA from Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow.