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Surjit S. Bhalla
Surjit S. Bhalla obtained his Ph.D in economics from Princeton University. He has worked as a research economist at Rand Corporation, Brookings Institution, the World Bank and The Policy Group; as a proprietary trader/strategist/portfolio manager at the World Bank, Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank and Oxus Investments. Presently, he is Chairman of Oxus Investments, a New Delhi based “hedge fund” and emerging markets advisory firm.
He has served on several committees of the Government of India (e.g. the capital account convertibility committees of 1997 and 2006, advisory committee on secondary markets for SEBI) and was an appointed member of the National Statistical Commission of India, 2007-2010. He is on the governing board of India’s largest think tank (NCAER), and since 2002, he has been a regular invitee to the Aspen Institute Program on the World Economy, Aspen, USA.
He is author of several academic articles as well as four books on globalization and its effects on the world economy :
Imagine There's No Country: Poverty, Inequality, and Growth in the Era of Globalization (2002);
Second Among Equals: The Middle Class Kingdoms of China and India (2007), unpublished;
Devaluing to prosperity: Misaligned currencies and their growth consequences, forthcoming, Peterson Institute for International Economics, 2012; and,
The Old Order is Fading – Or how the middle class is reshaping the world, forthcoming (2013).
His first book, Between the Wickets: The Who and Why of the Best in Cricket, developed a model for evaluating performance in sports and was published in 1987. This was the first effort at creating an evaluation system (rankings) of cricket players and teams; Moneyball does the same for baseball.
He has been widely quoted in both the domestic and international media for his views on markets, economies, and politics.
He is a regular contributor to Indian newspapers/magazines/TV on financial markets, economics, politics and cricket. He has a widely read weekly column, No Proof Required, published jointly in the Indian Express and Financial Express. During 2008/9, he was the anchor of his own TV talk/interview show, Tough Talk, on NDTV Profit. Since Sept. 2011, he appears in a new show on NDTV Profit, “The Bottomline with Surjit Bhalla” , a daily show on financial markets.
He has served on several committees of the Government of India (e.g. the capital account convertibility committees of 1997 and 2006, advisory committee on secondary markets for SEBI) and was an appointed member of the National Statistical Commission of India, 2007-2010. He is on the governing board of India’s largest think tank (NCAER), and since 2002, he has been a regular invitee to the Aspen Institute Program on the World Economy, Aspen, USA.
He is author of several academic articles as well as four books on globalization and its effects on the world economy :
Imagine There's No Country: Poverty, Inequality, and Growth in the Era of Globalization (2002);
Second Among Equals: The Middle Class Kingdoms of China and India (2007), unpublished;
Devaluing to prosperity: Misaligned currencies and their growth consequences, forthcoming, Peterson Institute for International Economics, 2012; and,
The Old Order is Fading – Or how the middle class is reshaping the world, forthcoming (2013).
His first book, Between the Wickets: The Who and Why of the Best in Cricket, developed a model for evaluating performance in sports and was published in 1987. This was the first effort at creating an evaluation system (rankings) of cricket players and teams; Moneyball does the same for baseball.
He has been widely quoted in both the domestic and international media for his views on markets, economies, and politics.
He is a regular contributor to Indian newspapers/magazines/TV on financial markets, economics, politics and cricket. He has a widely read weekly column, No Proof Required, published jointly in the Indian Express and Financial Express. During 2008/9, he was the anchor of his own TV talk/interview show, Tough Talk, on NDTV Profit. Since Sept. 2011, he appears in a new show on NDTV Profit, “The Bottomline with Surjit Bhalla” , a daily show on financial markets.
