Dr. Ajit Ranade is Senior Fellow and Trustee, Pune International Centre. He was Vice Chancellor of Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, prior to which he was Group Executive President and Chief Economist with the Aditya Birla Group. He serves and has served on boards and executive committees of apex industry chambers, the Reserve Bank of India and several companies and trusts. He is a newspaper columnist and author. He is co-founder of Association for Democratic Reforms, a citizens’ watchdog body. He is an alumnus of Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad and Brown University, USA, where received his doctorate.