Surjit Bhalla | |
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 Bhalla at the first meeting of Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister, at NITI Aayog, in New Delhi | |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Alma mater | Purdue University (BS) Princeton University (MPA, PhD) |
| Occupation(s) | Economist, author |
Surjit Bhalla is an Indian economist, author and columnist,[1] who was the Executive Director for India at the International Monetary Fund (IMF). He is a former member of the newly formed Economic Advisory Council to the second Modi ministry[2][3][4]
Bhalla obtained his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University in 1969 and worked for a year at Fairchild Semiconductor as a programming analyst.[5] In 1970, he joined he Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University and received a Master of Public Administration degree in 1972.[5] Bhalla went on to enroll for a doctoral studies and received a PhD in Economics from Princeton University in 1976, having volunteered for a couple of years at Brookings Institution for the last couple of years.[5] He also engaged in post-doctoral research for about a year, at RAND Corporation.[5] Between 1978 and 1992, he worked at World Bank for multiple spans, as Chief Investment Officer and Senior Economist.[5] From 1992 to 1994, he served as the Vice President of Goldman Sachs, before being hired as the Director of Deutsche Bank, where he continued till 1996.[5]
He has authored several books,[6][7] owns a portfolio management service[8] and has been member of two committees set up by the Reserve Bank of India on capital account convertibility.[9][10] Bhalla has been also on the governing board of National Council of Applied Economic Research, since 1999.[11]
