Notes on the Editors and Contributors

Abhijit Banerjee is the Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and founded the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL).

Pranjul Bhandari is Chief India Economist at HSBC. She has earlier worked at the Union Ministry of Finance in New Delhi and Goldman Sachs in Hong Kong.

Sajjid Chinoy is Chief India Economist at JP Morgan, having previously been an Economist at the International Monetary Fund and a Senior Associate with McKinsey & Company in New York.

Maitreesh Ghatak is a Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics.

Gita Gopinath is Economic Counsellor and Director of Research at the International Monetary Fund.

Amartya Lahiri is Royal Bank Faculty Research Professor of Economics at the University of British Columbia and the Director of the Centre for Advanced Research and Learning.

Neelkanth Mishra is a Managing Director, co-head of Asia Pacific Strategy, and the India Economist and Strategist for Credit Suisse.

Prachi Mishra is the former head of the strategic research unit of the Reserve Bank of India and is currently Managing Director and Chief India Economist at Goldman Sachs.

Karthik Muralidharan is the Tata Chancellor’s Professor of Economics at the University of California, San Diego.

Rohini Pande is the Rafik Hariri Professor of International Political Economy at Harvard Kennedy School.

Eswar Prasad is the Tolani Senior Professor of Trade Policy at Cornell University and a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution.

The former Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, Raghuram Rajan is an international academician and the Katherine Dusak Miller Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Mihir S. Sharma is Senior Fellow at the Observer Research Foundation and the head of its Economy and Growth Programme.

E. Somanathan is a Professor at the Economics and Planning Unit of the Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi.