Arvind Subramanian World's Top 100 Global Thinkers in 2011

NEW DELHI: US-based economist ArvindSubramanian is poised to be named chief economic adviser to Prime MinisterNarendraModi's government, two sources at the finance ministry said on Friday. 

Subramanian was assistant director in the Research Department of the International Monetary Fund. During his career at IMF, he worked on trade, development, Africa, India, and the Middle East. He served at the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) (1988-92) during the Uruguay round of trade negotiations and taught at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government (1999-2000). He has written on growth, trade, development, institutions, aid, oil, India, Africa, the WTO, and intellectual property, according to The Economist. 

According to Peterson Institute for International Economics, he has been advising the Indian government in different capacities, including as a member of the finance minister's expert group on the G-20. His book India's Turn: Understanding the Economic Transformation was published in 2008 by Oxford University Press.