Surjit S. Bhalla is a member of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s newly formed Economic Advisory Council. He is a senior India analyst for the Observatory Group, a New York-based macroeconomic policy advisory firm, and chairman of Oxus Research & Investments, a New Delhi-based hedge fund. He is also on the governing board of India’s largest think tank, the National Council for Applied Economic Research. He has worked as a research economist at the Rand Corporation, the Brookings Institution, and at both the research and treasury departments of the World Bank and on Wall Street with Deutsche Bank and Goldman Sachs. He is a widely published author and columnist who writes on financial markets, economics, politics and cricket. He has also taught at the Delhi School of Economics. Mr Bhalla has a Ph.D in economics from Princeton University.