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Suman Bery is an Indian economist, academic, and writer who is the newly appointed Vice Chairman of Niti Aayog.[1] After serving at the World Bank for 28 years, Bery served as the Chief Economist of Oil and Gas supermajor Royal Dutch Shell, based in The Hague, Netherlands. He is a Global Fellow in the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington DC and a Non-resident Fellow of Bruegel.[2] He was the former director general of National Council of Applied Economic Research and the former Indian country director of International Growth Centre.[3][4] In previous roles, Suman has served as a member of the Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council, of India’s Statistical Commision and of the Reserve Bank of India’s Technical Advisory Committee on Monetary Policy.[5]

Education

Bery was educated at The Doon School in Dehradun, and then spent a year at Oakham School, UK.[6] He then went to Magdalen College, University of Oxford, where he read philosophy, politics and economics, and later received a master's degree in public affairs from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University.[7]

Career

Suman worked at the World Bank for 28 years, and later became the lead economist. His career at the Bank spanned research on financial sector development and country policy and strategy, notably in Latin America and the Caribbean. His country experience included Brazil, Argentina, Chile and Peru. Due to his experience on financial sector reform in Latin America, he was deployed as a Special Consultant to the Reserve Bank of India during it's reform period between 1992 and 1994[8] He remained at the World Bank for 28 years, and later became the lead economist.

In 2001, he left the World Bank to become the director general of National Council of Applied Economic Research.[9]

Bery was most recently Royal Dutch Shell’s Chief Economist.

While at Shell he led a collaborative project with Indian think tanks to apply scenario modelling to India’s energy sector[10].

He is a Global Fellow in the Asia program of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington DC, a Nonresident Fellow of the Brussels think-tank Bruegel, as well as a Senior Fellow of the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth.

He also serves on the board of the Shakti Sustainable Energy Foundation in New Delhi, a non-profit dedicated to supporting India’s transition to a low-carbon future. [11]

He regularly contributes columns to newspapers, journals, and magazines, including Forbes, Business Standard, Indian Express, and Economic and Political Weekly.[12][13][14][15]

Bibliography

  • Bery, Suman (co-author), India Policy Forum 2008 - 2009, SAGE Publishing, July 2009, ISBN 978-8132101499
  • Bery, Suman (co-author), India Policy Forum 2010 - 2011, SAGE Publishing, July 2011, ISBN 978-8132107477
  • Bery, Suman (co-author), Energizing India: Towards a Resilient and Equitable Energy System, SAGE Publishing, December 2016, ISBN 978-9385985232

References

  1. ^ "NITI Aayog Welcomes Suman Bery as NITI Aayog Vice Chairman". pib.gov.in. Retrieved 2022-06-20.
  2. ^ "Suman Bery | Bruegel". Retrieved 2022-06-20.
  3. ^ "The revived centrality of the G20 | Bruegel".
  4. ^ "Suman Bery". IGC.
  5. ^ "Suman Bery | Bruegel". Retrieved 2022-06-20.
  6. ^ Datta, Kanika (March 29, 2011). "Lunch with BS: Suman Bery" – via Business Standard.
  7. ^ "Bery, Suman". SAGE India. March 22, 2020.
  8. ^ "Suman Bery". CPR. Retrieved 2022-06-20.
  9. ^ "Suman Bery".
  10. ^ "Suman Bery". CPR. Retrieved 2022-06-20.
  11. ^ "Suman Bery | Wilson Center". www.wilsoncenter.org. Retrieved 2022-06-20.
  12. ^ Hedrick-Wong, Yuwa. "The Economy In 2020: Insights From The Forbes Asia Panel Of Economic Commentators". Forbes.
  13. ^ Bery, Suman (November 5, 2015). "Suman Bery: What drives the global economy?" – via Business Standard.
  14. ^ "Can the G20 Decide the World's Future?". Economic and Political Weekly: 7–8. June 5, 2015 – via www.epw.in.
  15. ^ "Corona lockdown has profound economic implications. Policy response should be coherent". March 24, 2020.
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