Dr. Manoranjan Sharma, Chief Economist, Infomerics Ratings, Delhi, has a brilliant academic record. He was earlier the Chief Economist, General Manager, and Chief Learning Officer of Canara Bank.

Widely traveled in India and abroad, he is globally recognized as an expert in the Indian economy, banking, MSMEs, rural credit, financial inclusion, etc.

He has been recognized as one of the top 30 global experts by the UN Virtual University (UNVU) for SDGs.

He made presentations and Chaired sessions at national and international conferences. His papers have repeatedly been globally accepted, viz., Global Finance Conference-Las Vegas, USA; Emerging Issues in Business and Technology-Western Illinois University, USA; Applied Business Research Conference, Florida USA; International Symposium Economy & Business, Bulgaria; International Business Research Conference- Puerto Vallarta, Mexico; Global Business and Economic Research Conference-Istanbul, Turkey; International Conference on Globalization, Technology and Sustainable Development-Abu Dhabi, UAE; Max Planck Indian Institute of Science (IISc) International Conference on Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Economic Growth-Bangalore.

He has been nominated a member of over a dozen Advisory Councils in seven States, viz., Member, Governor’s Advisory Council, Rajasthan; Chancellor’s Nominee on SNDT University, Mumbai; Chancellor’s Nominee on Senate, Rajasthan University, Jaipur; Chancellor’s Nominee on Board of Management, Kota University; Expert Member, Bankers’ Institute of Rural Development, Lucknow; Expert Member, AIMA, Delhi; Vice Chairman, Indian Society for Training & Development (ISTD), Gurgaon; former Chairman, Editorial Committee of IBA’s flagship journal The Indian Banker, Mumbai, etc.

He is associated with banks, Universities, leading institutions, viz., Terrapinn Pte Ltd. (Singapore); Marcus Evans (Malaysia); Naseba (Paris/Dubai); Government of India and State Governments, IICA of Corporate Affairs Ministry, NIEPA of Education Ministry, NIDM of Home Ministry, RBI, IIMs, IITs, IGIDR, Mumbai, NIRD, Hyderabad, etc.

He has been on multiple Selection Panels of Professor and Associate Professor at Indian Institute of Management (IIM), DY Patil University, Appejay Satya University, Canara Bank, Punjab National Bank, Bank of India, Union Bank of India, Tamilnad Mercantile Bank (TMB) and Steel Authority of India Ltd. (SAIL); Expert Evaluator for BML Munjal Award (Hero Honda Group) and JS Juneja Award (AIMA), Expert by the Indian Banking Personnel Selection (IBPS), Mumbai.

His papers and books, viz., Global Financial Meltdown; Leading Issues in Indian Economy; Studies in Money, Finance and Banking; India’s Transforming Financial Sector; Dynamics of Indian Banking; and Indian Economic Policies and Data figure in Libraries of almost all top Universities of the world, viz., Oxford, Cambridge, Edinburgh, London School of Economics, Library of Congress, Washington; Harvard, Princeton, Yale, etc. He has over 450 publications, including in The Business Review (Cambridge, US), Journal of Economy and Business (Bulgaria), The Indian Banker (IBA, Mumbai), Bank Quest (IIBF, Mumbai), CAB Calling (RBI, Pune), The Economic Times, Financial Express, Times of India, Hindu Business Line.

He received several distinctions, awards, honors including the IDSAsr Research Award for outstanding research in the area of economic development, particularly sustainable development by the Guru Arjan Dev Institute of Development Studies, Amritsar for the year 2021 and the IIF CSR Award 2021 by the Indian Institute of Finance, Delhi for “a deep and abiding interest in a broad-basing of the process and pattern of the development process and the needs of the poor, deprived and marginalized sections of society” and “driven by the objective of giving back to the society”. He was awarded the Lifetime Management Excellence Award 2023-24 by Prestige Institute of Management & Research, Gwalior, in recognition of his accomplishments as an Economist, Researcher, Reviewer, Trainer, and Torch bearer in the field of economic research and data analysis for Academia and industry and being an illustrious and prominent banker, trainer and researcher”.

His views have repeatedly been cited in The Associated Press (New York), Dow Jones (New York), International Herald-Tribune (New York), and Wall Street Journal (New York).