Arvind Panagariya

Arvind Panagariya is chairman of the Sixteenth Finance Commission, Government of India, with the rank of a cabinet minister. He is also a professor of economics at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. He was the first vice chairman of the NITI Aayog, Government of India. He has authored over twenty books, published professional articles in all the top economics journals, and written for Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy and the Wall Street Journal. In 2012, the Government of India awarded him with the Padma Bhushan, its third-highest civilian honour.