Director of Research, Brookings India
Dr. Subir Gokarn is the Director of Research at the Brookings Institution India Center. His current research interests include policy options in health, education and financial inclusion. He also comments regularly on contemporary global and domestic economic issues. Prior to this, he was Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of India (2009-12), where he oversaw Monetary Policy, Research, Financial Markets, Communications and Deposit Insurance, and represented the Reserve Bank at the G-20 Deputies’ forum. Earlier, he was Chief Economist of Standard & Poor’s Asia-Pacific (2007-09), Executive Director and Chief Economist of CRISIL (2002-07), Chief Economist at the National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER), New Delhi (2000-2002) and Associate Professor at the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR), Mumbai (1991-2000). He received a doctorate in Economics from Case Western Reserve University, USA in 1989. He contributes a fortnightly column on current economic issues to the Business Standard, a leading financial daily of India.