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About the Speakers

Ashima Goyal

Ashima Goyal is Advisor at EGROW Foundation. She has provided consultancy to ADB, DEA, GDN, UNDP, RBI, UN ESCAP and WB. She is active in the Indian policy debate; and has served on several government committees, including the Economic Advisory Council Prime Minister and the RBI technical advisory committee for monetary policy, and boards of educational and of financial institutions. She is former Member of RBI's Monetary Policy Committee, an independent director at Edelweiss Financial Services and SBI General Insurance.

Ashima Goyal edits a Routledge journal in macroeconomics and finance and contributes a monthly column to the Hindu Business Line. She was a visiting fellow at the Economic Growth Centre, Yale University, USA, and a Fulbright Senior Research Fellow at Claremont Graduate University, USA. Her research has received national and international awards. She won two best research awards at GDN meetings at Tokyo (2000) and Rio de Janeiro (2001), was selected as one of the four most powerful women in economics, a thought leader, by Business Today (2008); was the first Professor P.R. Brahmananda Memorial Research Grant Awardee for a study on History of Monetary Policy in India since Independence (2011), which was published by Springer in 2014; received the SKOCH Challenger Award for Economic Policy (2017); Hindu College OSA Distinguished Alumni Award and 20th FLO FICCI GR8 Beti Award for Excellence in Economics (2018).

Ashima Goyal is widely published in institutional and open economy macroeconomics, international finance and governance, with more than a hundred articles in national and international journals. She has also authored and edited a number of books including Macroeconomics and Markets in Developing and Emerging Economies (Routledge: UK. 2017) and A Concise Handbook of the Indian Economy in the 21st Century (OUP: India, 2019).

Zsolt Darvas

Zsolt Darvas is a Senior Fellow at Bruegel. He specialises in macroeconomics, European Union governance and inequality. He covers policy-related issues such as fiscal and monetary policies, the EU budget, EU enlargement, income and wealth inequality, and inclusive growth. He continues to pursue some projects in international finance.

He is also a part-time Senior Research Fellow at the Corvinus University of Budapest. Previously, he was a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Economics, Centre for Economic and Regional Studies of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Research Advisor at the Argenta Financial Research Group in Budapest. Before that, he worked at the research unit of the Central Bank of Hungary where he served as Deputy Head. Zsolt holds a PhD in Economics from Corvinus University.