Montek Singh Ahluwalia
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| Montek Singh Ahluwalia | |
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| Born | 24 November 1943 |
| Occupation | Civil Servant |
Montek Singh Ahluwalia (born November 24, 1943) is a prominent Indian economic policy-maker. He was a Member of the Indian Planning Commission in the NDA Government from 1998. He became the first Director of the Independent Evaluation Office, International Monetary Fund (IMF) on July 9, 2001. On June 16, 2004, he was appointed as Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission by the UPA and was reappointed to the post by the Government on June 5, 2009 by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
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[edit] Early life
Montek Singh Ahluwalia was born in New Delhi, India. He studied at Delhi Public School, Mathura Road and then graduated with a B.A. (Hons) degree from St. Stephen's College, Delhi, University of Delhi. He received the BA degree as a Rhodes scholar from the University of Oxford, which became, in the Oxbridge tradition, an MA degree with passage of time. He also received the BPhil degree of Oxford University which the University later reclassified as an MPhil. While at Oxford, he was the president of the prestigious Oxford Union. He has also received an honorary Doctorate of Civil Law from Oxford.
[edit] Career
Montek Singh Ahuluwalia, after Oxford, joined the World Bank during the tenures of Hollis Chenery and Robert MacNamara. He was said to have become the youngest "Division Chief" at age 28 in the World Bank's bureaucracy. He returned after several years to become a lateral entrant into the Indian Administrative Service.
Prior to taking up his position at the IMF, Ahluwalia was a Member of the Planning Commission in New Delhi as well as a Member of the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister. He had previously served as Finance Secretary at Ministry of Finance, Secretary at Department of Economic Affairs, Commerce Secretary, Special Secretary to Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and Economic Advisor to the Ministry of Finance. In 2007 he became a member of the influential Washington-based financial advisory body, the Group of Thirty
His published work includes papers in professional journals and contributions to books.
[edit] Personal life
Ahluwalia is married to fellow economist Isher Judge Ahluwalia and has two children.
[edit] See also
List of deputy chairpersons of the planning commission of India
For a critical review of aspects of Montek Ahluwalia's economic policy-making, see e.g. "Fallacious Finance: Congress, BJP, CPI-M et al may be leading India to hyperinflation" First published in The Statesman newspaper, March 5 2007 Editorial Page Special Article www.thestatesman.net, now also at http://independentindian.com/2007/03/05/fallacious-finance-the-congress-bjp-cpi-m-et-al-may-be-leading-india-to-hyperinflation/
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