New CEA Dr V Anantha Nageswaran to hold press briefing today post Economic Survey

The newly appointed Chief Economic Advisor (CEA), Dr V. Anantha Nageswaran will take the hot seat to talk about country's economic outlook after the FM tables the Economic Survey to kick start the Budget Session of Parliament.

The Narendra Modi government appointed Dr V. Anantha Nageswaran as the new Chief Economic Advisor (CEA) in the Ministry of Finance. Nageswaran is a former member of the Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council (PMEAC) who served between 2019 and 2021.

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Meet Venkatraman Anantha Nageswaran

• Notably, Nageswaran is a distinguished economist involved primarily in the field of academia.

• He is an alumnus of Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, batch of 1985.

• Nageswaran later obtained a doctoral degree from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1994 for his work on the empirical behaviour of exchange rates.

• He had held several leadership roles in macro-economic and capital market research for several private wealth management institutions in Switzerland and in Singapore between 1994 and 2011.

• He helped co-found the Takshashila Institution, an independent centre for research and education in public policy and helped launch the first impact investment fund of the Aavishkaar Group in 2001.

• He is also a noted author with titles ranging from 'Can India grow?' in 2017 and more recently "The rise of Finance: Causes, Consequences and Cures."