Dr. V. Anantha Nageswaran is the current Chief Economic Advisor to the Government of India.
He has co-authored four books:
(i) The Rise of Finance – Causes, Consequences and Cures
(ii) Derivatives
(iii) Can India Grow?
(iv) The Economics of Derivatives
He was a weekly columnist for Mint from 2007 to February 2022.
He has taught at several business schools and institutes of management in India and in Singapore. He was a Distinguished Visiting Professor of Economics at Krea University.
He was a part-time member of the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister of India from 2019 to 2021. He is an honorary senior advisor to the International Financial Services Authority of India. He also advised the Indicus Foundation on Financial Inclusion and Dvara Research on Financial System Design. He served on the Advisory Boards of TVS Capital and the Global Alliance for Mass Entrepreneurship.
In his corporate career spanning seventeen years from 1994 to 2011, he was a Currency Economist at the Union Bank of Switzerland, Head of Research and Investment Consulting in Credit Suisse Private Banking in Asia, Head of Asia Research and Global Chief Investment Officer at Bank Julius Baer.
He was an Independent Director on the Boards of TVS Supply Chain Solutions, Sundaram Fasteners, TVS Tyres and Delphi-TVS.
He earned his doctoral degree from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst in 1994 for his work on exchange rate behaviour. In 1985, he received a Post-Graduate Diploma in Management from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.
