About the Speaker:

Appointed as the Chief Economic Advisor in January 2022, Dr V Anantha Nageswaran is a writer, author, teacher and consultant. Since 2007, he has written a weekly column for Mint every Tuesday for fifteen years. He has co-authored four books, namely, The Rise of Finance – Causes, Consequences and Cures, Derivatives, Can India Grow?, and The Economics of Derivatives.

He has taught at several business schools and institutes of management in India and Singapore. He served as the Dean of the IFMR GSB (Graduate School of Business) and as a distinguished Visiting Professor of Economics at Krea University. He was one of the founders of Aavishkaar Venture Capital Fund and the Takshashila Institution and served on the Academic Advisory Board of DAV Schools in Tamil Nadu and the Indian School of Public Policy.

From 2019 to 2021, he was a part-time member of the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister of India.

In his corporate career, spanning seventeen years from 1994 to 2011, he worked as a Currency Economist at the Union Bank of Switzerland, Head of Research and Investment Consulting at Credit Suisse Private Banking in Asia, and Head of Asia Research and Global Chief Investment Officer at Bank Julius Baer.

In 1985, he received a Post-Graduate Diploma in Management from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. He earned his doctoral degree from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1994 for his work on exchange rate behaviour

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