Dr.
Arvind Virmani
Principal Advisor, Planning Commission,
Government of India
Dr. Virmani is Principal Advisor, Planning Commission. He also serves
as Chairman, Board of Trustees of SBI Mutual Fund and Director on the
Board of Life Insurance Corporation of India.
He was Director & Chief Executive, Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER). He has served as Senior Economic Advisor in the Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance and Advisor (Policy Planning) to Finance Minister in 1991-92 and 1992-93. Before joining the government he was Senior Economist in the World Bank Research Department and was acting Chief of the Public Economics Division for a part of this tenure.
He was a Member, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), a Member of the Task Force on "Global Strategic Developments: Implications and Suggested Response" set up by National Security Council Secretariat and a Member of the Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) on Money, Foreign Exchange and Government Securities Markets, Reserve Bank of India. He Chaired the Working Group on Public Debt management (middle office) and Inter-ministerial Group on Customs duty reform and was member-secretary of the Steering Group on Foreign Investment. He was a Member of the Joint Study Group (JSG) on India-China ( & India-Korea) trade and economic cooperation. He served as member of the Appellate Tribunal for the Securities & Exchange Board of India (SEBI) and the Depositories Act. He has served as Director of Punjab National Bank & Allahabad Bank and Trustee of the Unit Trust of India (UTI). Was Member of the RBI Technical Advisory Group on Money and Government Security markets, the Steering Group on International Financial Standards and Codes and the UTI committee on reform and stabilization of the US64 scheme.
He has researched on Macroeconomics and Growth, International Trade and Tariffs and Credit markets. He has advised and written extensively on all aspects of economic reforms including the book, Accelerating Growth and Poverty Reduction - A Policy Framework for India's Development, Academic Foundation, New Delhi, January 2004 and Propelling India From Socialist Stagnation To Global Power, Vols. I & II, Academic Foundation, 2006.
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