Dhiraj Nayyar

Dhiraj Nayyar was appointed Director, Economics & Policy of Vedanta Ltd in October 2019. Prior to that, he was Chief Economist of Vedanta Ltd since October 2018. Between 2015 and 2018, Dhiraj was an Officer on Special Duty and Head of the Economics, Finance & Commerce vertical at NITI Aayog, Government of India. At NITI Aayog, he was responsible for all policy matters related to the Ministry of Finance and the Department of Commerce. Before joining the Government, Dhiraj did several stints in senior positions in the media; as Opinion Editor of Financial Express, Deputy Editor of India Today, Editor-at-large of Firstpost.com, Managing Editor of The Quint, and India Columnist for Bloomberg View, New York. In 2013, he was awarded a Bastiat Prize in Journalism by the California-based Reason Foundation. Dhiraj trained as an economist at St. Stephen's College, Delhi, Merton College, Oxford (where he was a Radhakrishnan Chevening Scholar), and Trinity College, Cambridge (where he was a Gates Cambridge Scholar). A prolific writer, he is the author of Modi & Markets: Arguments for Transformation, co-author of the Innovation Republic, and editor of two books; Surviving the Storm: India and the Global Financial Crisis and Dogs and Us: Collected Short Stories. He writes regular columns in Economic Times and Sunday Guardian and occasionally in the Indian Express and Times of India.