Democratizing Policy Action in India

Amit Kapoor is the Honorary Chairman of the Institute for Competitiveness, India. He is an affiliate faculty member teaching the Microeconomics of Competitiveness & Value Based Health Care Delivery courses at the Institute of Strategy and Competitiveness, Harvard Business School, where he has also been inducted into the Competitiveness Hall of Fame. Kapoor lectures at Stanford University, where he has launched a new course “Reimagining Capitalism/Rebalancing Economic Systems” with Professor Richard Dasher. With Michael Porter and Christian Ketels, he is co-author of The Competitiveness Roadmap for India at 100.

Bibek Debroy currently serves as Chairman of the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister of India. He has made significant contributions to the study of game theory; economic theory; income and social inequality; poverty; legal reforms; railway reforms; and Indology, among other topics. Debroy was a member of NITI Aayog, the think tank of the Indian Government, from its inception in January 2015 to June 2019. He was awarded the Padma Shri (the fourth-highest civilian honor in India) in 2015.

Meenakshi Ajith is a researcher at the Institute for Competitiveness and is currently consulting with the Sherpa track of India’s G20 presidency. She was associated with the Development Monitoring and Evaluation Office of NITI Aayog, working on areas of regulatory governance. Ajith has experience on a range of development policy issues, with particular expertise in climate action, environment, and clean energy transitions.