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arvind subramanian raghuram rajan e lightsteelblue indian arvind subramanian
 university of chicago financial economics 16 october 2014 5th chief economic adviser to government of india file : arvind subrahmaniyam.png pra149 st management , ahmedabad -lrb- mba -rrb- university of oxford -lrb- stephen m phil , d phil -rrb- 's college , delhi indian institute of
arvind subramanian

arvind subramanian is an indian economist and the current chief economic adviser to the government of india , having taken charge of the position on 16 october 2014 succeeding raghuram rajan .
the post of cea was lying vacant for over a year since raghuram rajan left the finance ministry to join the rbi as governor in september 2013 .
he served as the dennis weatherstone senior fellow at the peterson institute for international economics and a senior fellow at the centre for global development , both located in washington dc .
formerly an economist at the international monetary fund , he is a widely cited expert on the economics of india , china , and the changing balance of global economic power .
arvind subramanian is the author of two books , `` india 's turn : understanding the economic transformation '' published in 2008 , `` eclipse : living in the shadow of china 's economic dominance '' published in september 2011 , and co-author of `` who needs to open the capital account ? ''
which was published in 2012 .
in 2011 , `` foreign policy '' magazine has named him as one of the world 's top 100 global thinkers .
