| Montek Singh Ahluwalia (born on November 24, 1943) is currently the Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission for India. He has been a key figure in India’s economic reforms from the early 1980s onwards. He joined the Government of India in 1979 as Economic Adviser in the Ministry of Finance after which he held a series of positions including Special Secretary to the Prime Minister; Commerce Secretary; Secretary in the Department of Economic Affairs; Finance Secretary in the Ministry of Finance; a Member of the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister; Member of the Planning Commission in New Delhi. Between 1968 and 1979 he held various positions in the World Bank Research Department. He was the first Director of the Independent Evaluation Office of the International Monitory Fund, a position he took up in 2001 resigning in 2004 to take up his current position.
A prolific writer on various strategic aspects of economics, he has been making valuable contribution to a number of prominent Indian and international journals and books. He co-authored ‘Re-distribution with Growth: An Approach to Policy’, published in 1975, and in 2004 he write ‘Reforming the Global Financial Architecture’, Economic Paper No.41, Commonwealth Secretariat, London.
He earned his B.A. (Hons) degree in New Delhi and his M.A. and M.Phil. Degrees from the University of Oxford where he was a Rhodes Scholar. His published works include papers in various professional journals and several contributions to books. Mr. Ahluwalia is married to Isher Judge Ahluwalia and they have two children.
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