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Arvind Subramanian


Senior Fellow
asubramanian@cgdev.org

Expertise

Growth; trade; development; institutions; aid; oil; India; Africa; the WTO; and intellectual property.


Education

M.Phil. and D.Phil., University of Oxford, U.K.; MBA, Indian Institute of Management at Ahmedabad, India; BS, St. Stephens College, Delhi


Background

Arvind Subramanian is a Senior Fellow at CGD with a joint appointment at the Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics. Prior to his joint appointment with CGD and PIIE, Arvind was Assistant Director in the Research Department of the International Monetary Fund. Previously, he worked at the GATT (1988-1992) during the Uruguay Round of trade negotiations and taught at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government (1999-2000). In his career at the Fund, he has worked on development, Africa, India, trade and the Middle East.

He has written on growth, trade, development, institutions, aid, oil, India, Africa, the WTO, and intellectual property. He has published widely in academic and other journals and his work has been cited extensively, including in the Economist, Financial Times, Washington Post, New York Times, and the New York Review of Books.

His collection of writings on India called “India’s Turn: Understanding the Economic Transformation,” is forthcoming this summer (Oxford University Press).