Dr. Rajiv Kumar (Chairman)

Dr. Rajiv Kumar is the Chairman of the Current Board of Governors of the Giri Institute of Development Studies. He was the Former Vice-chairman, Niti Ayog, Government of India. He also serves as the Chancellor of the Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Pune. He has wide experiences of having worked in academia, government, industry and many multilateral institutions. He started his academic career in the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER) as a Researcher during 1977-1982. He later became the Director & CEO of ICRIER between 2006 and 2011. He was a Professor at the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT) and a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Policy Research (CPR), Delhi. He was the Head of Pahle India Foundation, a non-profit making research think tank, which he founded in 2013.

In the government, he was the Economic Advisor to the Department of Economic Affairs (DEA), Ministry of Finance (1991-1995) and Senior Consultant at the Bureau of Industrial Costs and Prices (BICP), Ministry of Industry (1989-1991).

His experience in multilateral financial institutions was with Asian Development Bank (ADB), Manila, where he spent 10 years before returning to India in 2004. He was also the Chief Economist of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) during 2004-2006 and Secretary-General of Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) during 2011-2013. He served on the Central Boards of State Bank of India for two terms and was also on the Central Board of Reserve Bank of India (RBI).

Dr. Kumar has a Ph.D. in Economics from the Lucknow University and a D. Phil from the Oxford University, UK.

Address

Dr. Rajiv Kumar, Former Vice-chairman, Niti Ayog, Government of India. Res. 45, Navjeevan Vihar New Delhi - 110017

Email

chairman@gids.org.in

aarkey1951@gmail.com

Website

gids.org.in