Mr. Jairam Ramesh
Secretary, Economic Affairs, Congress Party and Author, Making Sense of Chindia

Jairam Ramesh is presently a Congress Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha. He is a member of three committees of Parliament---the Public Accounts Committee, the Standing Committee on Finance and the Committee on Government Assurances. He is also a member of the National Advisory Council that is chaired by Smt. Sonia Gandhi. He helped put together the National Common Minimum Program of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) that came to power in May 2004. He was former secretary in the AICC, formerly deputy chairman Karnataka Planning Board, formerly member of the Rajasthan Development Council and formerly Economic Advisor to the government of Chattisgarh.

He has authored a number of key government reports in areas as diverse as energy, technology, capital goods, industrial policy and telecom. He was a key player in the team that formulated and implemented India 's economic reforms in 1991 and 1997. He recently authored the book titled “ Making sense out of Chindia ” detailing…

He studied public management at Carnegie Mellon University and spent a year at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology studying technology policy, economics, engineering and management. His undergraduate degree is in mechanical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai.