Who is V A Nageswaran?

Dr Venkatraman Anantha Nageswaran is the Chief Economic Advisor (CEA) of India. He succeeded Krishnamurthy Subramanian as the 18th CEA of the country on January 28, 2022.

 

Prior to this appointment, Nageswaran worked as an author, teacher and consultant as well and teaches financial markets and international economics at several business schools and institutes of management across India and abroad, according to the Finance Ministry.

 

He was the dean of IFMR Graduate School of Business (GSB) and a distinguished Visiting Professor of Economics at Krea University. He was also a part-time member of the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister of India from 2019 to 2021.
 

Education and career

 

The CEA holds a Post-Graduate Diploma in Management (MBA) from the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad and a doctoral degree from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst for his work on the empirical behaviour of exchange rates.

 

Born in 1963, Dr Anantha Nageswaran worked for the Union Bank of Switzerland and for Credit Suisse between 1994 and 2004 and then joined Bank Julius Baer & Co. Ltd in Singapore in 2006 as the Head of Research (Asia).

 

He was appointed as the Chief Investment Officer of the corporation in March 2009 where he has been consulting, writing and teaching since July 2011.

 

Anantha Nageswaran has held responsibilities in Singapore Management University and Wealth Management Institute at the Nanyang Technological University. He is also the co-founder and a member of the Board of Directors, NPS International School, Singapore.

 

He is also on the Board of Directors of various companies including TVS Supply Chains Pvt Ltd, TVS Sri Chakra and Aparajitha Corporate Services.

 

Nageswaran helped co-found the Takshashila Institution, an independent centre for research and education in public policy and helped launch the first impact investment fund of the Aavishkaar Group in 2001.

 

His co-authored books