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Dr.
Isher Judge Ahluwalia is currently Chairperson,
Board of Governors of Indian Council for Research
on International Economic Relations (ICRIER) and
Member, National Manufacturing Competitiveness
Council, Government of India. She served as Director
and Chief Executive of ICRIER from 1997 to 2001.
Until recently, she was Vice Chairperson, Punjab
State Planning Board, Government of Punjab and
Chairperson, Board of Trustees of IFPRI (International
Food Policy Research Institute).
Dr. Ahluwalia received her B.A. from Presidency
College at Calcutta University, an M.A. from
the Delhi School of Economics, and a Ph.D. from
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, all
in economics. Her research has focused on industrial
development and economic liberalization in India.
She is an author/co-author/editor of several
books including India's Economic Reforms
and Development: Essays for Manmohan Singh,
which she co-edited with Prof. I.M.D Little.
Her book, Industrial Growth in India: Stagnation
since the Mid-Sixties (OUP, 1985) received
the Batheja Memorial Award for the best book
on the Indian economy in 1987. Her blend of
quantitative research and policy analysis in
her book, Productivity and Growth in Indian
Manufacturing (OUP, 1991) focused attention
of the policy makers in India on the long standing
problem of poor productivity performance in
the manufacturing sector of India. Dr. Ahluwalia
has published many articles in professional
journals and also engaged actively in policy
debate in India through writing in newspapers
and magazines and participating in discussions
in the electronic media.
Dr. Ahluwalia
is on the boards of numerous research institutes
in India including the NCAER (National Council
of Applied Economic Research), and the Madras
School of Economics. She is also Member, Board
of Governors, Global Development Network, New
Delhi; Member, Research Advisory Board, Institute
of International Economics, Washington, D.C;
and Member, Scientific Council, BRUEGEL (Brussels
European and Global Economic Laboratory), Brussels.
She was a Member of the Eminent Persons Group
under the Chairmanship of Dr. Supachai Panitchpakdi,
Secretary-General of the UN Conference on Trade
and Development of the Asian Development Bank
which recently submitted its report, "Towards
a New Asian Development Bank in a New Asia."
She was a member of the Commission on Macro-Economics
and Health set up by the WHO in January 2000
under the chairmanship of Prof. Jeffrey Sachs.
In 2007, Dr. Ahluwalia became a member of CASI's
International Advisory Board.
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