Dr. Bibek Debroy is an economist and was educated in Ramakrishna Mission School, Narendrapur; Presidency College, Kolkata; Delhi School of Economics and Trinity College, Cambridge. Presently, he is Chairman, Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister, Government of India. He has worked in Presidency College, Kolkata (1979-83), Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Pune (1983-87); Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, Delhi (1987-93); as the Director of a Ministry of Finance/UNDP project on legal reforms (1993-98); Department of Economic Affairs (1994-95): National Council of Applied Economic Research (1995-96); Rajiv Gandhi Institute for Contemporary Studies      ( 1997-2005); PHD Chamber of Commerce  and  Industry (2005-06); and Centre for Policy Research (2007-2015) Dr. Debroy was also Member, NITI Aayog up to 5^th June 2019.  He has authored/edited several books, papers and popular  articles  and  has also been a Consulting/Contributing Editor with several newspapers.