Gopal Krishna Agarwal is the Bharatiya Janata Party’s National Spokesperson for Economic Affairs. An economic thinker and fellow member of the Institute of Chartered Accountant of India (ICAI), he writes extensively for newspapers and financial journals and delivers lectures at seminars and conferences. He is a trustee and treasurer of the India Policy Foundation (IPF) and Dr Mookherjee Smriti Nyas, an Independent Director on the board of North Eastern Electric Power Co (Neepco), and a member of the Board of Governors at the Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs (IICA). He has previously been a member of the Task Force on MSME in the Ministry of Finance and a director on the board of Bank of Baroda.