Pradeep AgrawalPradeep Agrawal is the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Chair Professor of Economics and Head of the RBI Endowment Unit at the Institute of Economic Growth, New Delhi, where he has been the Officiating Director. He has also been the Director of the Researh Center and Associate Dean of Research at the Kazakhstan Institute of Economics, Management and Strategic Research, Kazakhstan. Professor Agrawal's interests span economic growth and development; macroeconomics and financial markets; international economics; industrial economics; and applied econometrics. He has published extensively in international and national journals. He has co-authored two books (with Dr Subir Gokarn, former Deputy Governor, RBI and Dr Kirit Parikh, former member, Planning Commission) entitled Economic Restructuring in East Asia and India: Perspectives on Policy Reform and Policy Regimes and Industrial Competitiveness: A Comparative Study of East Asia and India. He has co-edited one book, India's Economy and Growth, and is currently working on a book titled Sustaining High Growth in India. He has done consultancy/projects for The World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, IDRC-Canada, the Swiss National Science Foundation, the Planning Commission and several ministries of the Government of India. He commentates on economic issues in national and international print and electronic media. Besides being an expert on the Indian economy, Professor Agrawal has expertise on most other Asian economies, having visited most of them for research. He has published books and numerous research articles on economies of East Asia, South Asia and Central Asia. Professor Agrawal took his MS and PhD degrees in economics from Stanford University and has held faculty positions at several universities in the USA and visiting positions at numerous institutions in the USA, Canada, Europe and Asia. Read More Read Less