Sanjeev Sanyal

Sanjeev Sanyal is an Indian economist, bestselling writer, environmentalist, and urban theorist. Currently he is the Principal Economic Adviser in the Ministry of Finance, Government of India. He is widely regarded as one of Asia's leading economists and was Deutsche Bank's Global Strategist and a Managing Director till 2015. A Rhodes Scholar and Eisenhower Fellow, he was named "Young Global Leader 2010" by the World Economic Forum at Davos. He is also the author of four best selling books "The Indian Renaissance: India's Rise after a Thousand Years of Decline" (published by Penguin and World Scientific), "Land of the Seven Rivers: A Brief History of India's Geography", published by Penguin in 2012., "The Incredible History of India's Geography" published by Puffin in 2015 and The Ocean of Churn: How human history was shaped by the Indian Ocean (Penguin, 2016).

Sanyal has worked in financial markets since the mid-nineties. He was Managing Director and Global Strategist at Deutsche Bank till 2015 and is considered one of the world's leading financial sector economists. His writings on the global economy and financial markets are widely read and quoted in the world of international finance. In 2013, he took on the United Nations Population Division in a high-profile debate on its population projections. Sanyal argued that the UN's widely used population forecasts were fundamentally flawed. Sanyal is also known for arguing that conventional economists are wrong to demand perpetual "global balance". His view is that all periods of economic growth are characterized by some form of symbiotic imbalance and that the focus should be on managing the distortions caused by the imbalance rather than forcing a return to some preconceived equilibrium. Therefore, his view is that the next round of global growth will only be sustained if the rest of the world can find a way to absorb waves of cheap capital emanating from China. This implies a return to global imbalances.

Sanjeev Sanyal is also a well-known environmentalist and expert on the economics of cities. He has been a strong advocate of including "walkability" and organic evolution in the way we think of cities. He has been member of the Steering Committee of Urban Age at LSE Cities and is also a Senior Fellow of the World Wildlife Fund. He is the co-founder and Director of GIST - a think-tank that is a pioneer in the field of environmental accounting. He has been closely involved with Aavishkaar MicroVenture Fund which won the UN's World Business Award for 2006. He has been an Adjunct Fellow of the Institute of Policy Studies at the National University of Singapore and a Visiting Scholar at Oxford University. In 2009, he joined the Board of Governors of AFPRO, one of India's largest organizations working on food security and has also advised the UK government, United Nations Environment Programme, and other international agencies. He is a member of the Future City Committee of the Singapore government that is creating a long term vision for the city-state.

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