Bibek Debroy is an economist and was educated in Ramakrishna Mission School, Narendrapur; Presidency College, Kolkata; Delhi School of Economics and Trinity College, Cambridge. Presently, he is Chairman, Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister (EAC-PM) and President, Indian Statistical Institute (ISI). He has worked in Presidency College, Kolkata (1979-83), Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Pune (1983-87); Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, Delhi (1987-93); as the Director of a Ministry of Finance/UNDP project on legal reforms (1993-98); Department of Economic Affairs (1994-95); National Council of Applied Economic Research (1995-96); Rajiv Gandhi Institute for Contemporary Studies (1997-2005); PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry (2005-06); and Centre for Policy Research (2007-2015). He has authored/edited several books, papers and popular articles and has also been a Consulting/Contributing Editor with several newspapers.
He was awarded the Shriram Sanlam Award for financial journalism in 2013. He was awarded Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian award of India, in 2015. He was awarded D.Litt. (Honoris Causa) by KIIT University in 2015, D.Phil. (Honoris Causa) by Amity University in 2016, D.Phil. (Honoris Causa) by Jagran Lakecity University in 2017 and D.Sc. (Honoris Causa) by University of Engineering and Management in 2018. He was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award by US-India Business Summit in 2016 and the Skoch Challenger Golden Jubilee Award in 2017. He was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award by Prestige Institute of Management and Research in 2018. He was conferred the title of “Vachaspati” by the Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeetha in 2018. He was awarded the “Bharatiya Manavita Vikas Puraskar” by Power Brand in 2018.
