Prof Veeramani has assumed as new Director of CDS

Professor C Veeramani assumed the position of the 10th Director of the Centre for Development Studies (CDS) on June 1, 2023. Previously, he served as a Professor at the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR) in Mumbai. He holds a PhD and MPhil in Economics from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi. Before joining IGIDR, he worked with the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER) in New Delhi and the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay. He was a Visiting Fellow at the Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University. He is the recipient of the EXIM Bank International Economic Development Research award 2003 for the best doctoral dissertation in international economics. Professor Veeramani serves as the Joint Managing Editor of the Journal of Quantitative Economics and as the Economics Area Editor of the Journal of Indian Business Research. He also contributes his expertise as a member of various committees, including the RBI’s Empowered Committee on External Commercial Borrowings and the Standing Technical Committee of Experts responsible for reviewing EXIM Bank’s Export Leading Index model, which forecasts India’s exports. His recent research papers focus on diverse topics such as Global Value Chains, Trade Patterns, Trade Policy, Productivity, Labor Market Outcomes, Exports and Job Creation, and Free Trade Agreements. His research has been extensively cited in Chapter 5, Volume 1 (“Creating Jobs and Growth by Specializing in Exports in Network Products”) of the Economic Survey 2019-20, published by the Ministry of Finance, Government of India.