Sanjib Pohit

Dr. Sanjib Pohit is presently Senior Fellow (Chief Economist) at National Council for Applied Economic Research, Delhi, India. He was educated at Indian Statistical Institute. Previously, he held research position at the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER, New Delhi), Indian Statistical Institute and was a visiting scholar to University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, USA) and Conference Board of Canada.

He is presently a Member of the Climate Change Modelling group of Ministry of Environment & Forest (Government of India) and a Council Member of Gerson Lehrman group. He has been a Consultant to various national and international bodies, including The World Bank, The Energy & Resource Institute, OECD, CUTS, Price Waterhouse Coopers, ICRIER and RIS (New Delhi).

Dr. Pohit is an experienced CGE modeler in the area of trade and environment with 15 years of modelling experience. Earlier, he has worked in the area of institutional economics, transport economics, input-output models, FDI, informal trade, automobile industry, and South Asian integration. He has co-authored 5 books, and has published more than 50 articles in journals/books. He has presented his research at seminars and conferences in different parts of the world – Japan, Canada, USA, India, Bangladesh, Switzerland, Netherlands, Singapore, and Finland.