Ajit RANADE

   

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Senior President & Chief Economist, Aditya Birla Group

Dr.Ajit Ranade is Senior President and Chief Economist with the USD 41 billion Aditya Birla Group, an Indian Multinational company with operations in more than 36 countries with head office in Mumbai. The Group’s businesses include metals, mining, chemicals, textiles, cement as well as telecom, retail, insurance and asset management. Ranade was earlier with ABN Amro Bank. He has been Member of the Capital Convertibility Committee of the Reserve Bank of India. He was a Member of the Governing Council of the Banking Codes and Supervisory Board of India. He is the Member of the National Executive Committee of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry and a Member of the Economic Policy Council of the Confederation of Indian Industry. He is Government of India’s nominee on the Governing Board of Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA) based in Jakarta, Indonesia. He is Chair of the Research Advisory Panel of the Indian Institute of Banking and Finance. Ranade is on the boards of several academic institutions. He is an engineer and MBA and received a PhD in Economics from Brown University, USA. He received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from IIT Bombay in 2009, Scholar of the Year Award from Wadia Trust in 2010, and Ramchandra Parnerkar Economics Award in 2012. He is a frequent contributor to the business press and writes regularly in newspapers on economic, social and political topics.