Rajiv Kumar has resigned from the NITI Aayog Vice-Chairperson post. Kumar had taken over in August 2017, replacing Arvind Panagariya who resigned from the post to return to academics.
- Economist Suman K Bery is the new Vice-Chairperson of the NITI Aayog.
- Bery is a former Director General of the National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER), a position he held for a decade from 2001 to 2011.
A non-resident fellow of Bruegel, economic policy research institution in Belgium’s Brussels, Dr. Bery has also served as the member of India’s Statistical Commission, Reserve Bank of India’s Technical Advisory Committee on Monetary Policy as well as the Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council.
