Ashok Kumar Lahiri

Ashok Kumar Lahiri is an Indian economist and politician who is currently serving as the Vice Chairman of NITI Aayog and a member of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly from Balurghat constituency. He is currently serving as a member of the Fifteenth Finance Commission. Lahiri previously served as 12th Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India, reader at the Delhi School of Economics, chairman of Bandhan Bank, executive director at the Asian Development Bank and director of the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy and had stints with the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, as a consultant and senior economist respectively. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party.