Chief Economic Advisor Dr. V. Anantha Nageswaran To Visit NLSIU

The Chief Economic Advisor (CEA), Dr. V. Anantha Nageswaran is scheduled to visit the NLSIU campus Thursday, 6 November 2025. He will deliver a special lecture to our Master’s Programme in Public Policy (MPP) and 3-year LLB cohorts on the topic, ‘Legal System Reforms are Crucial to India’s Economic Growth.’

The lecture will be delivered to first-year MPP and LLB (Hons) students. The rest of the NLS community is welcome to attend.

Abstract

The world economy is changing, and India has a narrow window of opportunity to grow fast and take its place within it as a major global player, which would also provide a high standard of living to its citizens. In this session, Dr. Anantha will cover why the legal system must play an essential role in this process, where the lacunae exist presently especially from the perspective of economically grounded reasoning in our legal system. Specifically, Dr. Anantha will cover the importance of trade offs, opportunity costs and unintended consequences. The session will also take students through the application of the lens of economic reasoning to some prominent issues.

About the Speaker

Dr. V. Anantha Nageswaran is the 18th Chief Economic Advisor to the Government of India. Before being appointed CEA, he was a writer, author, teacher and consultant. He wrote a weekly column in Mint on Tuesdays from 2007 until 2022. He has co-authored books on Derivatives, Global Finance and the Indian economy. He earned his doctoral degree from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst in 1994 for his work on exchange rate behaviour. In 1985, he received a Post-Graduate Diploma in Management from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. He worked in macroeconomic and financial markets research for international financial institutions in Switzerland and Singapore from 1994 to 2011.