'Thank You Arvind,' says Arun Jaitley as Arvind Subramanian step down as Chief Economic Advisor due to family personal reasons

Arvind Subramanian is a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. He was appointed India's Chief Economic Adviser (CEA) in October 2014. Subramanian's term was for three years, which was to end on October 16, 2017. Subramanian had got an extension of one year in September last year.

“Arvind elevated the quality of the analysis and the presentation of ideas for public deliberation in his four ‘Economic Surveys’. His documents for four years was treated by several independent critics as one of the best ever produced,” Jaitley said.

Subramanian graduated from St Stephen's College, Delhi, and got an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. He obtained M.Phil and D.Phil from the University of Oxford, UK.

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