Important Functionaries
Mr. N.K. Singh
Prof. Ramesh Chand
Prof. Ramesh Chand is currently Member, NITI Aayog, in the rank and status of a Union Minister of State. He has a PhD in agricultural economics from the Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), New Delhi. He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences and the Indian Society of Agricultural Economics. He has been involved in policy formulation for the agriculture sector for the past two and a half decades. Prior to joining NITI Aayog, he was Director, National Institute of Agricultural Economics and Policy Research, New Delhi.
Professor Chetan Ghate
Chetan Ghate has been working as the Director of the Institute of Economic Growth (IEG). He did his Ph.D in Economics from Claremont Graduate University, California in 1999. He was a member of the Reserve Bank of India’s first Monetary Policy Committee, between 2016-2020, member of the Advisory Committee of the National Accounts System (ACNAS) in the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation and he is currently an external affiliate of the Centre for Research in Macroeconomics and Macro-Finance at Swansea University (Wales, UK).