About the Speaker

Mr Sanjeev Sanyal is currently a Member of the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister (EAC-PM). He was the Principal Economic Adviser to the Finance Minister for five years till February 2022 and the co-Chair of the G20’s Framework Working Group. Before joining the government, he spent over two decades in financial markets and was Global Strategist and Managing Director at Deutsche Bank.  An alumnus of Shri Ram College of Commerce, Delhi, Mr Sanyal later attended Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar. He was awarded the Eisenhower Fellowship in 2007 for his work on urban dynamics. In 2010, he was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in Davos.  Mr Sanyal is the author of a number of best-selling books, including Revolutionaries, Land of the Seven Rivers, The Ocean of Churn, India in the Age of Ideas, and the Indian Renaissance. He has also published over two hundred articles and columns in leading national and international publications.