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The Project on India and the Subcontinent and the Belfer Center will host a Directors’ Seminar with Montek Ahluwalia on April 15, 2008 in the Belfer Center Library (L369).
Montek Singh Ahluwalia is currently the Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission of the Government of India. He was appointed to the post on June 16, 2004 by the current administration. Prior to this position, from 2001 to 2004, he served as the first Director of the Independent Evaluation Office of the International Monetary Fund. During a previous stint in government in the early 1990s, Ahluwalia played a critical role with the current Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, in reforming India’s economy.
Montek Singh Ahluwalia is currently the Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission of the Government of India. He was appointed to the post on June 16, 2004 by the current administration. Prior to this position, from 2001 to 2004, he served as the first Director of the Independent Evaluation Office of the International Monetary Fund. During a previous stint in government in the early 1990s, Ahluwalia played a critical role with the current Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, in reforming India’s economy.
Before taking up his position at the IMF, Mr. Ahluwalia was a Member of the Planning Commission in New Delhi, as well as a Member of the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister. He has also previously served as Finance Secretary, Ministry of Finance; Secretary, Department of Economic Affairs; Commerce Secretary; Special Secretary to the Prime Minister; and Economic Advisor, Ministry of Finance.
Mr. Alhluwalia’s publications include Reforming the Global Financial Architecture, Economic Paper No. 41 (2000) and Re-distribution with Growth: An Approach to Policy (1975). Among his articles are “Economic Reforms in India since 1991: Has Gradualism Worked?” (Journal of Economic Perspectives , August 2002), “State Level Performance Under Economic Reforms in India” ( Economic Policy Reforms and the Indian Economy, ed. by Anne O. Krueger, 2002), and “Economic Performance of the States in the Post-Reforms Period”(Economic and Political Weekly, May 6, 2000).
Mr. Ahluwalia earned his B.A. (Hons) degree in Economics in Delhi. He earned his M.A. and M. Phil. degrees from Oxford University.
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