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Visiting Professor of Economics, Ashoka University
MA, University of Maryland
Abheek Barua, former Chief Economist and Senior Executive Vice President of HDFC Bank, has been in the financial sector for 32 years. He has been earlier been with CRISIL (Standard and Poor, India) and Merrill Lynch, Asia. His previous assignment was as Chief Economist, ABN-AMRO Bank. He has been on a number of consultative committees of the Planning Commission, NITI Ayog and the RBI He was part of the HDFC bank’s apex Asset Liability Committee.
Abheek is a regular commentator on television, writes a regular column for the Economic Times and is a regular speaker at finance and economics conferences both in India and abroad. He has given public lectures in London, Istanbul, Kuwait, Dubai, Bahrain, Amsterdam, Hong Kong and Mumbai. Voted by Bloomberg, Reuters and Asset magazine as one of the top currency forecasters and bond analysts in Asia. He was educated at the Delhi School of Economics and the University of Maryland, USA. Abheek is also a novelist and essayist, whose first book “City of Death” was adapted into a television Series screened at the Berlin Festival in 2023 and due for release in India. His second novel is due to be published at the end of the year
