Academic Krishnamurthy Subramanian is India's new chief economic adviser

New Chief Economic Adviser Krishnamurthy Subramanian teaches at Indian School of Business (ISB) in Hyderabad and has a PhD from Chicago-Booth

Academic Krishnamurthy Subramanian will be the government’s new chief economic adviser and he will have a three-year tenure, it was announced on Friday.

Subramanian teaches at Indian School of Business (ISB) as an associate professor of finance (with tenure). He has a PhD from Chicago-Booth and is an expert in banking, corporate governance and economic policy, says his profile page on Indian School of Business’s website.

Subramanian's seven-page CV on ISB's website says his dissertation was on 'boundary decisions and financing choices in human capital intensive firms’. Interestingly, former Reserve Bank of India governor Raghuram Rajan was among the four