Sanjeev Sanyal: New Member of EAC-PM

February 24, 2022

Recently, Sanjeev Sanyal has been appointed to the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister (EAC-PM) as a full-time member.

Overview:

Sanyal had previously served as the Finance Minister’s Principal Economic Adviser under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government.
He had been working in the financial markets since the mid-1990s. Till 2015, he was the Managing Director and Global Strategist at Deutsche Bank.
In 2017, he was appointed as the Indian government’s Principal Economic Adviser. He also serves as the of the G20 Framework Working Group.
In 2007, he received the Eisenhower Fellowship for his work on urban issues.
The Government of Singapore had honored him at the World Cities Summit in 2014.
He has written several books which include The Indian Renaissance: India’s Rise After a Thousand Years of Decline,’ ‘Land of the Seven Rivers: A Brief History of India’s Geography,’ and, The Incredible History of India’s Geography.
Sanjeev Sanyal attended Shri Ram College of Commerce, Delhi, and as a Rhodes Scholar the St. John’s College, Oxford.

About EAC-PM

The Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister (EAC-PM) is an independent body that was constituted to provide advice to the central government and the PM on economic and related problems. The council provides its inputs regarding key economic issues from a neutral viewpoint. Since India’s independence, this council has been constituted multiple times with PM Modi reviving it in 2017. The current chairman of this council is Dr. Bibek Debroy.

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