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Ashok Kumar Lahiri is an Indian economist and a member of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly from Balurghat .[1] Fifteenth Finance Commission . Lahiri previously served as 12th Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India , reader at the Delhi School of Economics , chairman of Bandhan Bank , executive director at the Asian Development Bank and director of the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy and had stints with the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund , as a consultant and senior economist respectively. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party .
Education
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Lahiri is an alumnus of the economics department of the Presidency University, Kolkata .[2]
Economist
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Lahiri has served as Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India ,[3] [4] Bandhan Bank , economic adviser in the Ministry of Finance ,[4] Asian Development Bank ,[3] [4] National Institute of Public Finance and Policy ,[3] [4] reader at the Delhi School of Economics ,[4] World Bank ,[4] International Monetary Fund .[4]
Director of the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy
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Lahiri served as the director of the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy for four years between February 1998 and October 2002.[4]
Chief Economic Adviser
[ edit ] Dr. Ashok Lahiri at a Press Conference as the Chief Economic Advisor along with the Union Finance Secretary D. C. Gupta , the Union Revenue Secretary Binita Roy in New Delhi on 20 April 2004
Lahiri was appointed Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India (CEA) by the prime minister -led Appointments Committee of the Cabinet in December 2002,[4] 2007,[4] Ministry of Finance for more than four years. Lahiri served as the CEA under the premiership of Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Manmohan Singh .[5]
Chairman of Bandhan Bank
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Lahiri was appointed the non-executive, part-time chairman of the newly-formed Bandhan Bank in July 2015;[6] [7] 2018 to serve as a full-time member of the Fifteenth Finance Commission.[8] [9] [10]
Member of the Fifteenth Finance Commission
[ edit ] Dr. Ashok Lahiri addressing a Press Conference as the acting Chairman of the 15th Finance Commission regarding the Agriculture Conference, in Chandigarh on May 03, 2018.
Lahiri was appointed a part-time member of the Fifteenth Finance Commission in November 2017 by the President of India ,[11] [12] [13] [14] 2018 and was accorded the status of a minister of stateand served there till 26 November 2023.[15] [16]
Politics
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He was declared as a candidate to contest from the Alipurduar constituency in the 2021 West Bengal election [17] [18] Balurghat constituency .[19]
He won against TMC candidate Shekhar Dasgupta by securing 36,143 votes.[20]
References
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^ a b c "About Bandhan Bank —> Governance —> Ashok Kumar Lahiri" . Bandhan Bank the original on 8 November 2017. Retrieved 17 December 2018 .
^ a b c d e f g h i j "Ashok K. Lahiri" . Brookings Institution . Retrieved 17 December 2018 .
^ Pandey, Kirti (25 March 2021). "Celebrated economist Ashok Lahiri, BJP candidate from Balurghat worked with Vajpayee and Manmohan Singh" . Timesnownews.com . Archived from the original on 25 March 2021. Retrieved 4 April 2021 .
^ Law, Abhishek (9 July 2015). "Ashok Lahiri to chair Bandhan Bank board; founder unveils logo" . Business Line Kolkata : The Hindu Group . ISSN 0971-7528 . OCLC 456162874 . Retrieved 17 December 2018 .
^ Acharya, Namrata (10 July 2015). "Bandhan appoints former chief economic adviser Ashok Lahiri as chairman" . Business Standard Kolkata : Business Standard Ltd. OCLC 496280002 . Retrieved 17 December 2018 .
^ Jagannathan, K. T. (9 April 2018). "Ashok Kumar Lahiri quits as part-time chairman of Bandhan Bank" . The Hindu Chennai : N. Ram . ISSN 0971-751X . OCLC 13119119 . Retrieved 17 December 2018 .
^ Kanungo, Soumonty (9 April 2018). "Ashok Kumar Lahiri quits as non-executive chairman of Bandhan Bank" . Livemint Kolkata : Vivek Khanna. Retrieved 17 December 2018 .
^ "Ashok Lahiri steps down as chairman of Bandhan Bank" . Business Standard OCLC 496280002 . Retrieved 17 December 2018 – via PressReader .
^ "First Meeting of the Fifteenth Finance Commission, North Block, New Delhi" . Finance Commission of India Archived from the original on 6 January 2018. Retrieved 20 January 2018 .
^ Mishra, Asit Ranjan. "15th Finance Commission to hold first meeting today" . Livemint New Delhi : HT Media Ltd . Archived from the original on 3 December 2017. Retrieved 20 January 2018 .
^ "15th Finance Commission holds first meeting" Business Line Archived from the original on 4 December 2017. Retrieved 20 January 2018 .
^ "15th Finance Commission holds first meeting, seeks academic inputs from leading think-tanks - Firstpost" . Firstpost . New Delhi . Press Trust of India . 4 December 2017. Retrieved 31 March 2018 .
^ "Ashok Lahiri appointed full-time member of 15th Finance Commission" . Business Standard New Delhi : Business Standard Ltd. Press Trust of India . 3 May 2018. OCLC 496280002 . Retrieved 31 July 2018 .
^ "Ashok Lahiri full-time member of fin panel" . The Tribune New Delhi . Tribune News Service. 4 May 2018. Retrieved 17 December 2018 .
^ "BJP fields former CEA Ashok Lahiri" . Business Line . 14 March 2021. Archived from the original on 14 March 2021. Retrieved 3 April 2021 .
^ "Ashok lahiri replaced as BJP candidate" . Business Line . 18 March 2021. Archived from the original on 18 March 2021. Retrieved 3 April 2021 .
^ Das, Madhuparna (23 March 2021). "Ex-CEA Ashok Lahiri is now BJP's candidate in Balurghat after being dropped from Alipurduar" . ThePrint . Retrieved 3 April 2021 .
^ "Balurghat, West Bengal Assembly election result 2021" .
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