Dr. Ashok K. Lahiri
Chief Economic Adviser
Ministry of Finance & Company Affairs, Government of India
North Block
New Delhi 110001
India

Dr. Lahiri is the Chief Economic Adviser at the Ministry of Finance and Company Affiars, Government of India. Dr. Lahiri was a Leverhulme Visiting Fellow at the University of Birmingham during 1981-82. He was a visiting faculty member at the Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi, during 1978-80 and at the University of Georgetown during 1987-88. Dr. Lahiri was a Director of the United Bank of India and a member of the Industrial Finance Corporation of India, New Delhi; National Institute of Bank Management, Pune: and Southern Area Local aboard of the Reserve Bank of India, Chennai. Further, he was also the Chairman, Public Expenditure Reforms Commission, Government of Punjab, and non-official Member of the State Planning Commission in the rank of a Minister of State, Government of Sikkim. He has also been a member of several committees set up by Government and the Reserve Bank of India for advising on issues such as fiscal responsibility legislation, deregulation of the petroleum sector, ways and means advances from the RBI to the States, and floor price of steel. Public lectures and his publications on economics apart, he has also published on Indian electoral behaviour, and has often been consulted by the print and television media on economy and on election related matters. He holds a Ph.D. and a a Master's degree from Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, and a Bachelor's degree from Presidency College, Calcutta University.