Rakesh Mohan on the World Bank Group’s Economic Advisory Panel

President Emeritus and Distinguished Fellow of the Centre for Social and Economic Progress (CSEP), Rakesh Mohan has been appointed by the World Bank Group to serve on the World Bank Group’s Economic Advisory Panel.

Ajay Banga, World Bank President, invited Rakesh Mohan to join the World Bank Group’s Economic Advisory Panel.

The panel will support the World Bank Group by focusing on the strategic issues for the Group, regarding their objectives, research agenda and actions.


Nicholas Stern, IG Patel Professor of Economics and Government at the London School of Economics, will head the panel along with Indermit Gill as co-chair, Chief Economist of the World Bank Group and Senior Vice President for Development Economics.

The panel members have a two-year term.

Before his stint at CSEP, Rakesh Mohan was a Senior Fellow at the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, Yale University and also a Professor in the Practice of International Economics and Finance at the School of Management at Yale University, 2010-12. He has also been part of the Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council (EAC-PM).