Mysuru: Chief Economic Advisor to the Government of India (GoI) Arvind Subramanian will be in city on Aug. 19, to deliver a lecture on the topic ‘The Indian Economy: Some Issues’ at 5 pm in the seminar hall of All India Institute of Speech and Hearing (AIISH) in Manasagangothri here.

The lecture has been organised by Dr. D. Rajagopal Rao and Desiraju family of Desiraju Trust as part of D.V. Narasimha Rao Lecture Series.

D.V. Narasimha Rao

Born in August 1889 in Chikmagalur, D.V. Narasimha Rao, after obtaining BE degree from Poona Engineering College in 1916, began his career as an Assistant Engineer in the South Canara District and joined the Public Works Department of the Government of Mysore in 1919. He was subsequently shifted to the then Mysore State Railways, where he made a significant contribution.

Narasimha Rao, in a joint effort with other engineers, founded the National Institute of Engineering (NIE) in 1946. His other interest was in the development of the Mysore Centre of the Institution of Engineers (IE).

Arvind Subramanian

Born on June 7, 1959 in Chennai, Arvind Subramanian is an Indian Economist and the Chief Economic Adviser to GoI since Oct. 16, 2014.  He served as the Dennis Weather Stone Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics and a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Global Development,  in Washington DC.

Formerly an economist at the International Monetary Fund, he is widely cited as an expert on the economics of India, China and the changing balance of global economic power. Arvind Subramanian has authored two books, “India’s Turn: Understanding the Economic Transformation” published in 2008 and “Eclipse: Living in the Shadow of China’s Economic Dominance” (2011); co-authored “Who Needs to Open the Capital Account?” which was published in 2012.