Sanjeev Sanyal is currently a Member of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Economic Advisory Council (since 2022) with the rank of Secretary, Government of India. He is also the Chancellor of Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Pune. He was earlier the Principal Economic Adviser to the Finance Minister for five years till February 2022. He has also represented India on many international forums such as OECD and G7, and served as Co-Chair of the G20’s Framework Working Group.

Since joining the government in early 2017, he was involved in many key reforms. For his contributions to public service, Sanjeev Sanyal was given the KPS Menon Memorial Award for 2023. The award is named after India’s first foreign secretary.

Prior to joining the government, he spent over two decades in international financial markets, and served as Chief Economist for South & South-East Asia, and later as Global Strategist and a Managing Director at Deutsche Bank.

An alumnus of Shri Ram College of Commerce, Delhi University, Mr. Sanyal later attended Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar. He was awarded the Eisenhower Fellowship in 2007 for his work on urban systems. In 2010 he was named as Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in Davos. He has been a visiting professor/fellow of numerous institutions such as Oxford University, Royal Geographical Society (London), Institute of Policy Studies (Singapore), Jawaharlal Nehru University (Delhi). He also chairs the board of advisors of the Delhi School of Public Policy and Governance (Delhi University) and was a member of the Board of Advisors of the World Cities Summit, Singapore.

Mr. Sanyal is the author of a number of best-selling books including Revolutionaries, Land of the Seven Rivers, The Ocean of Churn, India in the Age of Ideas, The Incredible History of the Indian Ocean, and the Indian Renaissance. He has also published around three hundred articles and columns in leading national and international publications. His writings have received many awards including the Kalinga Book Award 2023, the Art Karat Award 2018, Skoch Award for Economics 2023 and so on.