Arvind Subramanian likely to be PM's chief economic advisor

August 22, 2014 17:37

Noted economist Arvind Subramanian is favoured as the choice for the government's Chief Economic Advisor (CEA). It has been vacant since Raghuram Rajan resigned almost a year before, to become governor of the Reserve Bank. His name is learnt to have gone to the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet for approval.

Subramanian is presently a senior fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics and Centre for Global Development, based in the US. In 2011, Foreign Policy magazine had named him one of the world's top 100 global thinkers.

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