Suman Berry is an Indian economist, academician and author, who has been appointed as the Vice Chairman of NITI Aayog (National Institution for Transforming India) in April 2022. He served at the World Bank for 28 years and left in 2000 as Lead Economist. A non-resident fellow at the think-tank Bruegel (an economic policy research institute in Brussels), and a Global Fellow at the Asia Program of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington DC, he was Director General (Chief Executive). National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER), New Delhi.
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Wiki/Biography
Suman Kumar Beri was born in 1949. He did his schooling at The Doon School in Dehradun, and he won a scholarship to attend Oakham School, an English boarding school in the United Kingdom. He received a bachelor’s degree in philosophy, politics and economics from Magdalen College, Oxford University. He attended Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs to pursue a master’s degree in public affairs.
Physical Appearance
Height (Approx): 5′ 6″
Hair Color: Salt and Pepper
Eye colour: dark brown
Family
parents and siblings
There is not much information about his parents. he has three elder brothers
wife and children
He is married but there is not much information about his wife.
livelihood
Suman Berry started her career at the World Bank in 1972 through the Young Professionals Programme. He served as an economist in the Public Finance Division from 1973 to 1979. He held various positions in various divisions like Senior Economist, Division 1C in a career span of 28 years. and Yugoslavia Division (1980–1984), Division Chief in the National Economics Management Division (1984–1988), Latin America Region Country Operations Division, Division Chief in Bolivia, Paraguay, and Uruguay (1988–1992), and Economic Adviser, Economic Advisory Unit. , Latin America Region (1994–1997). Finally, he served as Lead Economist in the Latin America Region Country Operations Division, Brazil Anchor, before leaving the World Bank in 2000. During the period 1992 to 1994, he served as a Special Advisor to the Reserve Bank of India in Bombay. In 2001, he joined the National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER) as Director General (Chief Executive), New Delhi. During his tenure at NCAER, he also served as a member of the Economic Advisory Council of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and the Technical Advisory Committee of the Reserve Bank of India on Monetary Policy. He served at NCAER for nearly a decade and left in 2011. From 2012 to mid-2016, Suman was appointed as Chief Economist at Shell International based in The Hague in the Netherlands. He was part of the senior leadership of Shell’s global landscape group. He remains a Global Fellow in the Asia Program of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC, between April 2019 and December 2022. On 30 April 2022, he was appointed as the Vice Chairman of NITI Aayog. At the time of his appointment at NITI Aayog, he was a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Center for Policy Research, New Delhi, a Senior Fellow at the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth and a Board Member of Shakti Sustainable Energy Foundation, New Delhi. commission.
A photograph of Suman Berry being welcomed to the NITI Aayog office by former NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant
publication
He was the co-author of the book Energizing India: Towards a Resilient and Equitable Energy System, published by SAGE Publishing in 2016.
Cover page of Energetic India book
He contributed to the Indian Policy Forum Journal from 2006 to 2011.
Favorite
- Cuisine: Italian
- Restaurants: Sushi Mizutani in Tokyo, L’Auberge de l’Île in Alsace, and Union Square Café on 16th Street in New York
Facts/General Knowledge
- Suman Berry is known for having in-depth knowledge of food and wine. In an interview he said
But I really hit my stride at the World Bank when Rakesh and I used to entertain as bachelors and we did a lot of cooking from Madhur Jaffrey’s first cookbook!”
- In an interview, Suman Berry reveals what his wife thinks about his food choices
“Although my wife teases me that I’m the only person she knows who thinks English food is something to crave.”
- For more than a decade, he was a monthly columnist for Business Standard, an Indian newspaper.
- Rakesh Mohan, former deputy governor of the Reserve Bank of India and Suman Berry’s predecessor at NCAER, was a year senior when Suman Berry went to Ockham School.
- Berry revealed this in an interview
The devaluation of 1966 almost ended his plans to go up to Oxford. His father, working in an oil company called Caltech, which was later nationalized as Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited, had to take a loan to partially finance his education.”
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