Prof. Pinaki Chakrabory is
currently the vice-chairman of the
Institute of Development Studies,
Jaipur. Prior to this, he was the
Director, National Institute of Public
Finance and Policy New Delhi,
Chief-Social Policy-UNICEF, and the
Chief of Field Office-UNICEF Kerala
and Tamil Nadu.
He served as a Member, Advisory Council to
the Fifteenth Finance Commission of India; MemberSecretary, Committee on Fiscal Statistics appointed by the
National Statistical Commission in 2017; Chairman, Kerala
Public Expenditure Review Committee-a statutory committee
appointed by the Government of Kerala; and Research
Associate, Levy Economics Institute, New York.
From May2013
to December 2014, Chakraborty served as Economic Adviser
to the 14th Finance Commission of India, heading the
Economic Analysis and Technical Coordination Divisionof the
Commission. He also served as a Member of the Third Union
Territory Finance Commission, appointed by the Ministry of
Home Affairs, and as a Consultant to the EleventhFinance
Commission of India.
Prof. Chakraborty has served on the advisory committees of
various research institutions in India. He has also held short
term visiting appointments in the Department of Economics
at the University of Ottawa and the University of Carleton,
and at the Centre for Development Studies-affiliated to
Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, and taught
Indian Public Finance course at the Indira Gandhi Institute
for Development Research, Mumbai.
Prof. Chakraborty testified before the Select Committee of
the Upper House of India Parliament in June 2015 on the
Constitution Amendment Bill on GST. His book titled “GST in
India: A Simple Tax in a Complex Federal System” has been
published by Orient Back Swan in 2019. He has also
researched extensively on the decentralization and
development of States in India.
He has co-authored two
books titled ‘State Level Reforms, Growth, and Development
in Indian States” published by the Oxford University Press,
New York in 2014 and ‘Social Sector in a Decentralised
Economy: India in the Era of Globalization’ published by
Cambridge University Press. He publishes regularly on various
national and international journals. He has an MPhil in
Applied Economics and PhD in Economics from the Centre
for Development Studies
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