Krishnamurthy Subramanian
Krishnamurthy Venkata Subramanian (born May 5, 1971) is an Indian economist and ex Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India (CEA), officially being appointed to the position on 7 December 2018 and stepping down on 8 October 2021. The post of CEA was vacant for over fivemonths since the 16thCEA, Arvind Subramanian, left due to personal reasons in June 2018, having occupied the position for a few months more than the usual term of threeyears. Subramanian is also a Professor at the Indian School of Business (ISB). He was awarded "Professor of the Year" by ISB for  elective courses that he taught for the Class of 2019. Education. He was born in Bhilai, Chhattisgarh in a Tamil family. He did his schooling at [MGM Senior Secondary School Sector VI Bhilai]. Subramanian holds a Master of Business Administration from IIM Calcutta and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in financial economics from University of Chicago Booth School of Business. His PhD was completed under the supervision of Luigi Zingales and Raghuram Rajan. He is also an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur where he studied electrical engineering, as well as the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, where he  was awarded an Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation Dissertation Fellowship in 2005. Career. Subramanian has worked in expert committees for Securities and Exchange Board of India and the Reserve Bank of India, being part of major economic and corporate reforms in India. He has worked with JPMorgan Chase, ICICI Bank and Tata Consultancy Services. He was a board member in Bandhan Bank, the National Institute of Bank Management and the Reserve Bank of India Academy, and has academically been a part of the finance faculty at Goizueta Business School at Emory University in the United States of America. Subramanian is also  currently a tenured Professor at the Indian School of Business, and earlier worked as an executive assistant to the chairperson of the Fixed Income Money Markets and Derivatives Association of India. In articles published in "The Times of India" and "Livemint" titled, "Will Black Be Back? Why demonetisation will be revolutionary in India’s fight against corruption", and "Demonetisation: Are the poor really suffering?", respectively, Subramanian supported the Government of India's banknote demonetisation policy in 2016. Subramanian was inducted into the FifteenthFinance Commission's advisory council in May 2019.