NCAER appoints Poonam Gupta as new Director General

NCAER appoints Poonam Gupta as new Director General

• World bank economist Poonam Gupta has been appointed as the new Director General of the policy think tank “National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER)”.
• Gupta is the first woman director general of NCAER.
• She would succeed Shekhar Shah who was appointed in 2011 and will complete his second five year term in early May 2021.
• Gupta is currently working as a lead economist at the Washington DC-based World Bank.
• President of NCAER – Nandan Nilekani.