Sanjeev Sanyal

Sanjeev Sanyal is a well-known Indian economist based in Singapore. He is currently Deutsche Bank's regional Chief Economist and Adjunct Fellow of the Institute of Policy Studies, Singapore. His work on Asia's fast growing economies is widely read and quoted. He played an important role in changing the image of India as an international investment destination. He is also one of Asia's leading experts on the economics of large cities and financial hubs.

His major contributions are in financial markets, monetary economics, demographics, urban re-engineering and environmental accounting. . He is Director of the Green Accounting for Indian States Project - a path-breaking environmetal accounting project. He has been closely involved with Aavishkaar MicroVenture Fund which won the UN's World Business Award for 2006. He is a member of the Steering Committee of the Urban Age at the London School of Economics. He has been a Visiting Scholar at Oxford University

Educated at Shri Ram College of Commerce, Delhi University and St John's College, Oxford where he was a Rhodes Scholar (1992-1995). He was awarded the Eisenhower Fellowship for 2007 in recognition of his work on the economics of "Global Cities".

External links

* [http://www.ips.org.sg/staff/ssanyal/ Bio at IPS.org.sg]
* [http://www.gistindia.org Green Indian States Trust website]