India’s Economic Trajectory: Digitization, Infrastructure and Energy Transitions

Mr Suman Bery is currently Vice Chairperson of India’s NITI Aayog – the National Institute for Transforming India, in the rank and status of a Cabinet Minister. NITI Aayog is the apex public policy think tank of the Government of India, tasked with catalyzing economic development through knowledge, innovation and cooperative federalism.

Mr Bery took over as NITI Aayog Vice Chairperson on May 1, 2022 bringing leadership experience as a policy economist and research administrator at various organizations, including as global Chief Economist at Royal Dutch Shell, Director-General of the National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER), Delhi, India; Researcher member of the Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council; of India’s Statistical Commission; and of the Reserve Bank of India’s Technical Advisory Committee on Monetary Policy and lead of various country initiatives at The World Bank, Washington DC. At the time of his appointment, Mr Bery was a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi; a Global Fellow in the Asia Programme of the Woodrow Wilson International Centre for Scholars in Washington D.C.; and a non-resident fellow at Bruegel, an economic policy research institution in Brussels. He was also a member of the Board of the Shakti Sustainable Energy Foundation, New Delhi.
 
Mr. Bery holds a master’s degree in public affairs from Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs, and an undergraduate degree in philosophy, politics and economics from Magdalen College, University of Oxford.

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