India in the Age of Ideas: Select Writings: 2006-2018 About the Author Sanjeev Sanyal is an internationally acclaimed economist and best-selling author. He is currently the Principal Economic Advisor to the Government of India and also serves as the Co-Chair of the G-20 Framework Working Group. Prior to joining the government, he was Global Strategist & Managing Director at Deutsche Bank. He was named Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2010. Sanjeev is also a well-known environmentalist and urban theorist. In 2007, he was awarded the Eisenhower Fellowship for his work on urban dynamics. He was a Visiting Scholar at Oxford University; Adjunct Fellow at the Institute of Policy Studies, Singapore; and a Senior Fellow of the World Wide Fund for Nature. In 2016, he served in the Future City Sub-Committee of the Singapore government tasked with building a long-term vision for the city-state, and is currently a member of the committee tasked with writing a new National Urban Policy for India (to be published in 2019). Sanjeev went to Shri Ram College of Commerce, Delhi and Oxford University where he was a Rhodes Scholar. His best-selling books include Land of the Seven Rivers, Life Over Two Beers and The Ocean of Churn.