Part-Time Member
Part-Time Member
Professor Pulak Ghosh
Shri Pulak Ghosh is a tenured Professor of Finance, Decision Sciences and Public Policy at IIM Bangalore and a Member of the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister. He has held several key policy and advisory roles, including Senior Fellow at NITI Aayog, Member of the National Statistics Commission, Chairman of SEBI’s Committee on AI in Trading, and advisory positions with RBI Academy, NSE, and the UN Global Pulse (Big Data initiative).
A leading Tech Statistician–Economist, Prof. Ghosh works at the intersection of AI, big data, finance, and public policy, with research spanning financial intermediaries, household finance, development finance, and sustainability/ESG. He played a pivotal role in the 2018 employment report using EPFO data and in shaping the PM-Kisan Samman Nidhi Scheme in 2019.
He has published extensively in top international journals such as the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, Management Science, and Biometrika. His work has been cited by the World Bank, Government of India, RBI, and NITI Aayog. Prof. Ghosh is a recipient of several prestigious national and international awards in finance, statistics, and econometrics.