Shri N.K. Singh

Former Chairman of the 15th Finance Commission and Former Member of Parliament, Government of India

N.K. Singh is a prominent Indian economist, academician, and policy interlocutor. He is currently the President of the Institute of Economic Growth, and Co-convener of the G20 Independent Expert Group for the reforms of the multilateral development banks. He was Chairman of the 15th Finance Commission, and prior to that, presided as Chairman of the Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management Review Committee (FRBM). 

He was a member of the Upper House of Parliament, the Rajya Sabha, from 2008 to 2014. He was Expenditure Secretary, Revenue Secretary, Member of the Planning Commission, and Secretary to the Prime Minister of India, among other senior leadership roles. He served in Japan as the Minister, Economic and Commercial, Embassy of India, Japan, and played a prominent role in the promotion of Indo-Japanese relations, including negotiations of the prestigious Maruti-Suzuki collaboration.

He was presented with the award of the “Order of the Rising Sun - Gold and Silver" by the Emperor of Japan in 2016. Recently, he was also conferred the Honorary Fellowship from the London School of Economics.

He is intermittently connected with a number of think-tanks like the Columbia University’s Raj Centre for Indian Economic Policies; Member of the Ananta Aspen’s Board of Trustees, Senior Advisor to the Observer Research Foundation (ORF), and a Distinguished Fellow at the Centre for Social and Economic Progress (CSEP)

Mr Singh is also the author of several books like his autobiography, Portraits of Power: Half a Century of being at Ringside, more recently Recalibrate, The New Bihar and earlier Not by Reason Alone: The Politics of Change.