Sanjeev Sanyal is currently a Member of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s
Economic Advisory Council (since 2022) with the rank of Secretary,
Government of India. He was earlier the Principal Economic Adviser to the
Finance Minister for five years till February 2022. He has also represented
India on many international forums such as OECD and G7, and served as Co-
Chair of the G20’s Framework Working Group. He was one of the key
architects of the G20’s Global Action Plan that kept the world economy
functioning during the pandemic years.

Since joining the government in early 2017, he was involved in many key
reforms For his contributions to public service, Sanjeev Sanyal was given the
KPS Menon Memorial Award for 2023. The award is named after India’s first
foreign secretary.

Prior to joining the government, he spent over two decades in international
financial markets, and served as Chief Economist for South & South-East
Asia and later as Global Strategist and a Managing Director at Deutsche
Bank

An alumnus of Shri Ram College of Commerce, Delhi University, Mr. Sanyal
later attended Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar. He was awarded the
Eisenhower Fellowship in 2007 for his work on urban systems. In 2010 he was
named as Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in Davos. He
has been a visiting professor/fellow of numerous institutions such as Oxford
University Royal Geographical Society (London), Institute of Policy Studies
(Singapore , Jawaharlal Nehru University (Delhi). He also chairs the board of
advisors of the Delhi School of Public Policy and Governance (Delhi
University and was a member of the Board of Advisors of the World Cities
Summit Singapore.

Mr Sanyal is the author of a number of best-selling books including
Revolutionaries Land of the Seven Rivers, The Ocean of Churn, India in the
Age of Ideas, The Incredible History of the Indian Ocean, Life Over Two
Beers Iconic Indians and the Indian Renaissance. He has also published
around two hundred and fifty articles and columns in leading national and
international publications. His writings have received many awards including
the Kalinga Book Award 2023, the Art Karat Award 2018, Skoch Award for
Economics 2023 and so on. His book Revolutionaries is currently being
converted into an Amazon Prime series.