Anupma Mehta is Senior Consulting Editor at NCAER. She has over 30 years of experience in editorial, feature writing, and publishing, across a range of organisations, including UN bodies, publishing houses, research institutions, and the social sector. She has published opinion articles and syndicated columns on gender and economics in leading dailies. She has also worked with NCAER earlier as Head of Publications and Senior Editor.
Her last role was as Associate Director, Content and Communications, at Ahmedabad University, where she was leading the content delivery and strategy, and writing and editing of diverse company literature for the institution. Previously, she has worked as Editorial Associate, Institute for Human Development (IHD), New Delhi, and as Editor at India Speaks Bureau, a news service. She has also been Consultant Editor and Features Writer for UN Women, World Food Programme, SEWA, Oxford University Press, Penguin Books, McGraw-Hill India, and Prentice-Hall Publishers, among others.
She holds a Master’s in English Literature from Delhi University; Bachelor’s in English (Hons.) from Lady Shri Ram College, Delhi University; and a Post-graduate Diploma in Communications, Advertising, and Public Relations from the Indian Institute of Mass Communication, New Delhi.
Pragati serves as a Research Team Assistant within the Investor’s Education and Protection Fund (IEPF) Chair Unit. She holds a Master’s degree in Economics, specializing in Trade and Finance, from the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, Kolkata, and a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from University of Delhi.
She has worked as a research Intern with the Ministry of commerce and Industry, Govt. of India and V.V. Giri National Labour Institute.
Her research interest includes Gender studies, Labour studies, Human development, and development economics.
Aliva Smruti is a Research Analyst with a Master’s degree in Macroeconomics and Financial Markets from the Barcelona School of Economics and a Bachelor’s degree from O.P. Jindal Global University. Her research interests lie in open macroeconomics, particularly focusing on monetary policy and its global spillover effects. She has explored various aspects of macroeconomic dynamics, with an emphasis on understanding how monetary policy shocks influence broader economic systems.
Shri Vivek Johri is an officer from the 1985 batch of Indian Revenue Service who retired as Chairman, Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) in July 2023.
In a career spanning 38 years, Shri Johri handled a variety of assignments in different functional verticals both in field formations as well as the Board but is known for the long years spent in formulation of tax policy. Having spent 17 years in the tax policy vertical of CBIC, he has been involved in preparing as many as 20 Union Budgets. The other highlights of his career include a stint in the Directorate General of Audit when the Audit program for Central Excise and Service Tax was revamped in collaboration with Revenue Canada; the successful conclusion of the WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement when he was posted as Minister (Customs) at India’s Permanent Mission to WTO; subsequent trade facilitation initiatives at Nhava Sheva Customs between 2017 and 2020. His tenure as Member and Chairman of the Board witnessed considerable improvement in administration of GST both from compliance and ease of doing business perspectives.
Shri Johri was conferred the Best Probationer Award in his batch and the Presidential Award for meritorious service in the year 2000.
He is currently with KPMG, India as a Senior Advisor on tax policy. He is also a Senior Advisor with the National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER), New Delhi whom he is assisting in setting up a Development Data lab.
His interests include reading philosophy, fiction, history and biography; painting and music.
