Ashok
Lahiri

Dr. Ashok Lahiri is Director of the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy(NIPFP) in India. The NIPFP is a center for advanced applied research in public finance and public policy. He holds an M.A. and a P.h.D. from the Delhi School of Economics. He taught at the Delhi School of Economics and was a Leverhulme Visiting Fellow at the University of Birmingham. He was a consultant to the World Bank during 1986-87, and, between 1987 and 1996, worked at the International Monetary Fund on Eastern Europe and countries of the former Soviet Union. He has been and is a member of several committees set up by the Government and the Reserve Bank of India for advising on issues such as deregulation of the petroleum sector, ways and means advances from the RBI to the States, and the floor price of steel.