Rajiv Kumar (born 6 July 1951) is an Indian economist and is currently the vice-chairman of the NITI Aayog.
He is the chancellor of the Gokhale Institute of Economics and Politics in Pune and founding director of Pahle India Foundation, a non-profit research organisation that specialises in policy-oriented research and analysis.
Kumar is the writer of several books on India’s economy and national security.
He is an economic columnist for major Indian publications and is a speaker on the Indian political economy.