Ashok Lahiri

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Ashok Lahiri
File:The Chief Economic Advisor, Ministry of Finance Dr Ashok Lahiri, addressing at the Plenary 4 How to get US $ 1.5 Trillion of Capital Investment The Resource Hurdle for Development at the 3rd day of the 5th Pravasi Bharatiya.jpg
Member of West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Assumed office
2 May 2021
Preceded by Biswanath Chowdhury
Constituency Balurghat
Member of the Fifteenth Finance Commission
Assumed office
27 November 2017 (2017-11-27)
Serving with Shaktikanta Das (2017–2018)
Ramesh Chand
Anoop Singh
Appointed by President of India (then, Ramnath Kovind)
Chairman N. K. Singh
12th Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India
In office
December 2002 (2002-12) – June 2007 (2007-06)
Appointed by Appointments Committee of the Cabinet
Preceded by Rakesh Mohan
Succeeded by Arvind Virmani
Director of the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy
In office
February 1998 (1998-02) – October 2002 (2002-10)
Appointed by Appointments Committee of the Cabinet
Personal details
Born Ashok Kumar Lahiri
Alma mater
Occupation Economist, academician

Ashok Kumar Lahiri is an Indian economist and a member of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly from Balurghat.[1] He is currently serving as a member of the Fifteenth Finance Commission. Lahiri previously served as 12th Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India, reader at the Delhi School of Economics, chairman of Bandhan Bank, executive director at the Asian Development Bank and director of the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy and had stints with the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, as a consultant and senior economist respectively. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party.

Education

Lahiri is an alumnus of the economics department of the Presidency University, Kolkata.[2]

Economist

Lahiri has served as Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India,[3][4] chairman of Bandhan Bank, economic adviser in the Ministry of Finance,[4] executive director at the Asian Development Bank,[3][4] director of the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy,[3][4] reader at the Delhi School of Economics,[4] consultant with the World Bank,[4] and senior economist at the International Monetary Fund.[4]

Director of the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy

Lahiri served as the director of the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy for four years between February 1998 and October 2002.[4]

Chief Economic Adviser

File:The Union Finance Secretary Shri D.C. Gupta, the Union Revenue Secretary Smt. . Binita Roy and Chief Economic Advisor Dr. Ashok Lahiri at a Press Conference in New Delhi on April 20, 2004 (Tuesday.jpg
Dr. Ashok Lahiri at a Press Conference as the Chief Economic Advisor along with the Union Finance Secretary D. C. Gupta, the Union Revenue Secretary Binita Roy in New Delhi on 20 April 2004

Lahiri was appointed Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India (CEA) by the prime minister-led Appointments Committee of the Cabinet in December 2002,[4] and demitted the office of CEA in June 2007,[4] serving in the Ministry of Finance for more than four years. Lahiri served as the CEA under the premiership of Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Manmohan Singh.[5]

Chairman of Bandhan Bank

Lahiri was appointed the non-executive, part-time chairman of the newly-formed Bandhan Bank in July 2015;[6][7] Lahiri resigned from his position as chairman in April 2018 to serve as a full-time member of the Fifteenth Finance Commission.[8][9][10]

Member of the Fifteenth Finance Commission

File:The acting Chairman of the 15th Finance Commission, Dr. Ashok Lahiri addressing a Press Conference regarding the Agriculture Conference, in Chandigarh on May 03, 2018.JPG
Dr. Ashok Lahiri addressing a Press Conference as the acting Chairman of the 15th Finance Commission regarding the Agriculture Conference, in Chandigarh on May 03, 2018.

Lahiri was appointed a part-time member of the Fifteenth Finance Commission in November 2017 by the President of India,[11][12][13][14] Lahiri was elevated to a full-time member in April 2018 and was accorded the status of a minister of state.[15][16]

Politics

He was declared as a candidate to contest from the Alipurduar constituency in the 2021 West Bengal election[17] but due to animosity among the local BJP members in Alipurduar, his name was later withdrawn from Alipurduar constituency in the list of candidates[18] He was later declared as a candidate for the Balurghat constituency.[19]

He won against 7 times MLA Biswanath Chowdhury and sitting former TMC minister Sekhar Dasgupta by securing 36,143 votes.[20]

References

  1. ↑ https://www.news18.com/news/politics/balurghat-election-result-2021-live-updates-balurghat-winner-loser-leading-trailing-mla-margin-3696629.html
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  20. ↑ https://www.indiatoday.in/elections/story/balurghat-west-bengal-assembly-election-result-2021-live-updates-1797122-2021-05-02
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