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Of Counsel : The Challenges of the Modi-Jaitley Economy
Arvind Subramanian, In conversation with Nandan Nilekani.
Speakers
In his book, Arvind Subramanian provides an inside account of his journey as the chief economic advisor to the Government of India from 2014-18. With an illustrious cast of characters, Subramanian’s part-memoir, part-analytical writings candidly reveal the numerous triumphs and challenges of policymaking at the zenith, while appraising India’s economic potential, health and future through comprehensive research and original hypotheses.
Speakers
Arvind Subramanian
Dr. Arvind Subramanian, an Indian economist is the former Chief Economic Advisor to the Government of India. His award-winning book Eclipse: Living in the Shadow of China’s Economic Dominance was published in September 2011 and has printed 130,000 copies world-wide in four languages. Foreign Policy magazine named him as one of the world’s top 100 global thinkers in 2011. In the same year, India Today magazine named him one of the top 30 Masters of the mind in India over the last thirty years. He is a columnist for India’s financial dailies such as Business Standard and Indian Express and contributes regularly to the UK daily, The Financial Times.
Nandan Nilekani
Nandan Nilekani co-founded Infosys and is the Non Executive Chairman of Infosys. He is the Co-founder and Chairman of EkStep, a not-for-profit effort to create a learner centric, technology based platform to improve basic literacy and numeracy for millions of children. He was most recently the Chairman of the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) in the rank of a Cabinet Minister.
