Chetan Ghate became the director of the Institute of Economic Development

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Category : Appointment/Resignation Published on: February 22 2022

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The Institute of Economic Growth has appointed Chetan Ghate as the new director succeeding Ajit Mishra.
Ghate, who was a member of the Reserve Bank of India’s first monetary policy committee between 2016-2020, is the winner of the 2014 Mahalanobis Memorial gold medal for the best research economist in the country under the age of 45.
Ghate has been a professor of economics at the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Delhi for over 18 years.
He is also a member of the advisory committee of the national accounts system (ACNAS) in the ministry of statistics and programme implementation.

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Chetan Ghate became the director of the Institute of Economic Development