Odisha-born World Bank Economist Deepak Mishra Appointed as Director of ICRIER
Bhubaneswar: Odisha-born World Bank economist Deepak Mishra has been appointed as the next director and chief executive of the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER). Mishra, who is currently serving as Practice Manager in the World Bank’s Macroeconomics, Trade, and Investment Global Practice, will take the charge from Rajat Kathuria who has [...]
Bhubaneswar: Odisha-born World Bank economist Deepak Mishra has been appointed as the next director and chief executive of the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER).
Mishra, who is currently serving as Practice Manager in the World Bank’s Macroeconomics, Trade, and Investment Global Practice, will take the charge from Rajat Kathuria who has been the director and chief executive of ICRIER since 1st September 2012.
Mishra has held various positions at the World Bank, including co-director of the World Development Report 2016 (Digital Dividends), country economist for Ethiopia, Pakistan, Sudan, and Vietnam.
He has also served as the World Bank’s Country Economist for India, based in Delhi from 2001-04. During his tenure, he has worked with the government of India and with other number of the state governments together with Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Karnataka, Maharashtra and Punjab.
Prior to joining the World Bank, Deepak worked as a research analyst at Tata Motors, intern at the U.S. Federal Reserve Board of Governors in Washington, D.C and taught macroeconomics and international finance as an adjunct lecturer and teaching assistant at the University of Maryland.
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