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Poonam Gupta is the Director General of National Council of Applied Economic
Research
(NCAER),
India’s largest economic policy think tank; a member of the Economic Advisory Council to the
Prime Minister; and a member of the Advisory Council to the 16th Finance Commission.
She joined NCAER in 2021 after working at senior positions for nearly two decades at the IMF
and
World Bank in Washington DC. In between Gupta taught at the Delhi School of Economics,
University of Maryland (USA) and as a visiting faculty at ISI, Delhi. She has also been the
RBI
Chair Professor at NIPFP and a Professor at ICRIER.
She is currently on the Boards
of
NIPFP and GDN (Global Development Network), a member of the World Bank’s advisory groups for
‘Poverty & Equity’ and the ‘World Development Report’, a member of the Development Advisory
Committee of NITI Aayog, and of FICCI Executive Committee. She was the Chair of the Task
Force
on Macroeconomics and Trade during India’s G20 Presidency. As the founding Director of
NCAER’s
National Macro and Growth Centre, Gupta leads the work on issues related to Economic Growth,
International Financial Architecture, Public Debt, States Finances, Macroeconomic Stability,
and
Central Banking. Her research has been published in scholarly journals, and in the IMF and
World
Bank publications. Gupta has nearly fifty widely cited research papers and an edited book on
India and China (with Barry Eichengreen) to her credit. Her work has been cited in the
Economist, Financial Times and Wall Street Journal. She has been writing regular columns for
Business Standard and Economic Times.
Gupta holds a Master’s degree and PhD in
Economics from University of Maryland, USA, and a Master’s degree in Economics from Delhi
School
of Economics, University of Delhi. She won the 1998 EXIM Bank award for her PhD on
international
economics.