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The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Wednesday appointed Poonam Gupta as Deputy Governor
RBI Deputy Governor Poonam Gupta
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Wednesday appointed Poonam Gupta as Deputy Governor, just days ahead of its bi-monthly Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meeting, scheduled for April 7-9, 2025. She will serve a three-year term in the role.
Poonam Gupta is currently the Director General of the National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER), India’s largest economic policy think tank. She is also a member of the Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council and serves as the Convener of the Advisory Council to the 16th Finance Commission.
Before joining NCAER in 2021, she spent nearly two decades in senior roles at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank in Washington, DC. She has also taught at the Delhi School of Economics, the University of Maryland (USA), and served as visiting faculty at the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Delhi.
Gupta has held positions as the RBI Chair Professor at the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP) and as a professor at the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER).
She holds a Master’s degree and a PhD in Economics from the University of Maryland, USA, along with a Master’s degree in Economics from the Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi. In 1998, she was awarded the EXIM Bank prize for PhD research in international economics.
