Sanjeev Sanyal is the Principal Economic Advisor to the
Government of India. An internationally acclaimed economist and
best-selling author, he spent two decades in the financial sector and was
Global Strategist & Managing Director at Deutsche Bank till 2015.
Sanjeev was named Young Global Leader by the World Economic
Forum in 2010. He is also a well-known environmentalist and urban theorist. He
is an expert on the economics of cities. He has been a strong advocate of
including "walkability" and organic evolution in the way we think of
cities In 2007, Sanjeev was awarded the Eisenhower Fellowship for his work on
urban dynamics and has been a Visiting Scholar at Oxford University, Adjunct
Fellow at the Institute of Policy Studies, Singapore and a Senior Fellow of the
World Wide Fund for Nature. Sanjeev has also served on the Future City Sub-Committee
of the Singapore government tasked with building a long-term vision for the
city-state. He is the co-founder and Director of GIST - a think-tank that is a
pioneer in the field of environmental accounting. In 2009, he joined the Board
of Governors of AFPRO, one of India's largest organizations working on food
security and has also advised the UK government, United Nations Environment
Programme.
Sanjeev attended Shri Ram College of Commerce, Delhi and
Oxford University where he was a Rhodes Scholar (1992-95). His best-selling
books include Land of the Seven Rivers, The Indian Renaissance and The Ocean of
Churn, all published by Penguin. In addition, he had published around 200
articles, columns and reports in leading national/international publications.
He was given the inaugural International Indian Achievers Award for
contributions to Literature in 2014. He has been a Fellow of the Royal
Geographical Society, London and a Visiting Fellow of IDFC Institute, Mumbai.
He writes frequently for Hindustan Times, Project Syndicate,
The Times of India, Live Mint, Business Standard, Swarajya on economic,
environmental issues.