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Place of Birth: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
About Arvind Subramanian
- Arvind Subramanian is an Indian economist and the former Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India, having taken charge of the position on 16 October 2014 to 20 June 2018 succeeding Raghuram Rajan.
- The post of CEA was lying vacant for over a year since Raghuram Rajan left the finance ministry to join the RBI as governor in September 2013.
- He then took to the Office of Chief Economic Adviser to The Government of India on 16th October 2014.
- He was in office till 20th June 2018.
- He was succeeded by Krishnamurthy Subramanian (who is the incumbent CEA to Indian Government).
- He served as the Dennis Weatherstone Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics and a Senior Fellow at the Center for Global Development, both located in Washington DC.
- Formerly an economist at the International Monetary Fund, he is a widely cited expert on the economics of India, China, and the changing balance of global economic power.
- Arvind Subramanian is the author of two books, India's Turn: Understanding the Economic Transformation published in 2008, Eclipse: Living in the Shadow of China's Economic Dominance published in September 2011, and co-author of Who Needs to Open the Capital Account? which was published in 2012. In 2011, Foreign Policy magazine named him one of the world's top 100 global thinkers.
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