Prof B R Shenoy Memorial Lecture 2023
– Dr Surjit S Bhalla
In this Lecture, Centre for Civil Society and Economics Research Centre host Dr Surjit Bhalla, Economist and former Executive Director, IMF, to discuss “The Challenges to being a Liberal today”. This lecture is a part of the annual BR Shenoy Memorial Lecture Series, which aims to memorialize Prof Shenoy’s ideas and policies through talks by speakers from India and abroad, including leading academics, policy experts, and public officials.
Dr Surjit Bhalla is a former part-time member of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Economic Advisory Council. In addition, he serves as Chairperson for the Ministry of Commerce High Level Advisory Group on Trade; Economic Adviser to the Fifteenth Finance Commission, Government of India. He is a regular Invitee to the Aspen Institute Program on World Economy, USA, 2002-present. He was a Contributing Editor for Indian Express. He was also the Founder-Chairman of Oxus Research & Investments 1997-2017.
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Prof B R Shenoy Memorial Lecture 2022
– Dr Duvvuri Subbarao
The B R Shenoy Memorial Lecture 2022 was held on 2nd November, 2022. In this Lecture, Centre for Civil Society and Economics Research Centre host Dr. Duvvuri Subbarao, Ex-Governor RBI, to discuss “Macroeconomic Challenges on the Path to a $5 Trillion Economy“.
This lecture is a part of the annual BR Shenoy Memorial Lecture Series, which aims to memorialize Prof Shenoy’s ideas and policies through talks by speakers from India and abroad, including leading academics, policy experts, and public officials.
You can access the PDF format of the Lecture – here
Dr Duvvuri Subbarao was the Governor of Reserve Bank of India 2008-’13 and is currently a distinguished visiting faculty at the National University of Singapore.
As Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, Dr Subbarao is generally credited as having safely steered the Indian economy through the financial crisis. He also undertook initiatives to demystify the Central Bank, including lucid presentation of macro-economic concepts in RBI publications and grassroots level interaction with the masses through various financial inclusion, financial literacy and village outreach programs.
In February 2012, Dr Subbarao presented his world-famous theory on the New Trilemma of Central Bankers, which he named as the “Holy Trinity” of price stability, financial stability and sovereign debt sustainability. This countered Mundell’s well known “Impossible Trinity” of fixed exchange rates, free capital flows and independent monetary policy.
Dr Subbarao worked as the Joint Secretary in the Department of Economic Affairs and Ministry of Finance 1988-93. Subsequently he became the Finance Secretary to the Government of Andhra Pradesh between and on completion of his term, he became lead economist at the World Bank from until 2004.
He was then appointed to the Prime Ministers’ Economic Advisory Council from 2005 to 2007 before he was elevated as the Finance Secretary in 2007. Dr Subbarao was involved in the initiation of fiscal reforms at state level and managed a flagship study on de-centralisation across major countries of East Asia including China, Indonesia, Vietnam, Philippines and Cambodia. He is credited with the financial turnaround of Andhra Pradesh in the late nineties when the State had slipped into an unprecedented fiscal crisis.
Dr Subbarao published his book, “Who Moved My Interest Rate? Leading the Reserve Bank of India Through Five Turbulent Years”, was published in July 2016.
