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Who is Suman K Bery?

Suman K Bery was appointed as the next Vice- chairperson of NITI Aayog on April 22, 2022. Bery, who will be taking office on May 1, will be replacing Rajiv Kumar, the current Vice-chairperson. Bery's appointment as the new Vice-chairperson came following the resignation of Rajiv Kumar. Suman Bery is an Indian economist, academician and writer. He started his career in 1972 in Washington, when he joined the World Bank through its young professional programme. Bery worked at the World Bank for 28 years, wherein he held different positions before taking over the charge as the lead economist.
Suman K Bery has also held other key positions. From 1992 to 1994, he worked as a special consultant for the Reserve Bank of India in Bombay during his break from the World Bank.
 
In 2001, he left the World Bank to take charge as the Director-General of the National Council of Applied Economic Research. During this time, Bery also started contributing to several magazines and newspapers as a columnist, including Forbes, Business Standard, Indian Express, and the Economic and Political Weekly. He has also been a member of the Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council (during Manmohan Singh's government), the National Statistical Commission, and the Technical Advisory Committee of the Reserve Bank of India.
 
Bery was also the Chief Economist of Shell International at The Hague in the Netherlands from 2012 to 2016. He has been a non-resident fellow at Bruegel, a Brussels-based economic think tank, and also a Senior Fellow of the Mastercard Centre for Inclusive Growth.
 
Suman Bery graduated in politics, philosophy, and economics from Magdalene College at the University of Oxford. He later received a Master's degree in public affairs from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. 

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