Professor Ghosh is a tenured professor of Finance, Decision Sciences and Public Policy at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore. He was Senior Fellow of Niti Aayog, member National Statistics Commission, member IT committee of National Stock Exchange, Advisory member RBI Academy, founding advisory board member of Big Data at the United Nations (UN) Global Pulse-a big data initiative by UN; Chairman of SEBI committee on AI trading;

He is a leading “Tech Statistician/Economist” with a very interdisciplinary research agenda and push for Data driven policy making. His research focuses on how to use technology, digital intelligence and social science to improve the welfare and productivity in the Economy and spans over several topics, including: (a) AI and Big data; (b) Financial Intermediaries (c) Household finance; (d) Finance & Development; and (e) Sustainability & ESG.

On the policy front, Prof. Ghosh was instrumental in the 2018 employment report using EPFO data. Following the report, EPFO started to publish monthly payroll data. He was also instrumental in shaping the Prime Minister Kisan Samman Nidhi Scheme (PMKSN) in 2019. Prof. Ghosh regularly consults corporates and Govt. on various issues of emerging technology (including AI, Big Data, Fintech, Digital Intelligence, Industry 4.0) and Policy.

He has extensively published in internationally reputed journals including Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, Management Science, Science Advances, Journal of the American statistical Association, Biometrika  among others. His research has also been cited  by World Bank, various departments of Government of India, Niti Aayog, Reserve Bank of India as well as in various industry reports.

Prof. Ghosh has won several awards including outstanding Paper Award in Financial Institutions (WRDS) at the MidWest Finance Association Annual Meeting, best fintech paper award at Western Finance Association; distinguished alumni award from Oakland University, USA, Prof. C. R. Rao National Award in Statistics, Prof. P. C. Mahalanobis Memorial Award in Econometrics, and Young Scientist Award by International Indian Statistical Association.

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