Dr. Ajit Ranade Speaker
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Dr. Ajit Ranade is presently Senior Fellow and Trustee with the Pune International Centre. His thirty-five year career has spanned academic, research and corporate assignments. He served as the Vice Chancellor of Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, a deemed University in Pune from February 2022 till October 2024. Prior to that he was Group Executive President and Chief Economist with the Aditya Birla Group, an Indian multinational conglomerate. Ranade has been a member of the executive committees of apex industry chambers such as Confederation of Indian Industry, FICCI and MCCIA, and has served on several committees of the Reserve Bank of India. He has earlier been a faculty member at universities in the U.S.A. and in India. He serves on the board of several companies and trusts, and has been a newspaper columnist for over two decades, writing on economics and current topics. He is a coauthor of an award winning book “Rising to the China Challenge” (2021).
An Alumnus of IIT, Mumbai and IIM – Ahmedabad, Dr. Ranade is the Chief Economist at the Aditya Birla Group, a multinational conglomerate. His professional career has spanned academic and corporate assignments, in India as well as in the US, and he has also been the Chief Economist at ABN Amro Bank. He is a member of the Board of India Today Economists, chairs the CII West Zone Sub Committee on Economic Affairs and the Research Advisory Panel of the Indian Institute of Banking and Finance. He has also been a Chairman of IITBAA. Dr Ranade held a faculty position at the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, the Indian Council of Research on International Economic Relations and JNU, New Delhi. He was also a faculty of Brown University, Holy Cross College, and Wesleyan University in the US. Currently, as the Group Chief Economist of India’s A V Birla Group, he heads its economic research arm focusing on macro-economic, policy and sectoral issues. Dr Ranade has been a consultant to the World Bank, the Tobacco Institute of India, and the UN ESCAP. He is a columnist for the Financial Express and has written several articles in Business Standard. Topics: Ajit Ranade speaks on Asia, Economics & Finance, Emerging Markets. Talks can be shaped around your audience, industry and strategic objectives - share your event brief with Simply Life India Speaker Bureau and we will work with Ajit to align the content with your delegates and goals. |
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