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Arvind Subramanian

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Dr. Arvind Subramanian is the Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India since October 16, 2014. He is on leave from the Peterson Institute for International Economics and the Center for Global Development, Washington, D.C. His award-winning book Eclipse: Living in the Shadow of China's Economic Dominance was published in September 2011 and has printed 1,30,000 copies world-wide in four languages. In 2011, Foreign Policy magazine named him as one of the world's top 100 global thinkers. In the same year, India Today magazine named him one of the top 30 Masters of the mind in India over the last 30 years. He has worked in the Research Department of the International Monetary Fund, the GATT during the Uruguay Round of trade negotiations, and taught at Harvard and Johns Hopkins Universities. He has written on India, growth, trade, development, institutions, aid, climate change, oil, intellectual property, the WTO, China, and Africa. Dr. Subramanian holds an undergraduate degree from St. Stephens College, Delhi; an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management at Ahmedabad, India; and M. Phil and D. Phil degrees from the University of Oxford, UK.