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Lahiri previously served as 12th\u00a0Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India, reader at the Delhi School of Economics, chairman of Bandhan Bank, executive director at the Asian Development Bank and director of the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy and had stints with the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, as a consultant and senior economist respectively. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x4Table of ContentsEducation[edit]Economist[edit]Director of the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy[edit]Chief Economic Adviser[edit]Chairman of Bandhan Bank[edit]Member of the Fifteenth\u00a0Finance Commission[edit]Politics[edit]References[edit]Education[edit]Lahiri is an alumnus of the economics department of the Presidency University, Kolkata.[2]Economist[edit]Lahiri has served as Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India,[3][4] chairman of Bandhan Bank, economic adviser in the Ministry of Finance,[4] executive director at the Asian Development Bank,[3][4] director of the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy,[3][4]reader at the Delhi School of Economics,[4] consultant with the World Bank,[4] and senior economist at the International Monetary Fund.[4] (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x4Director of the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy[edit]Lahiri served as the director of the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy for four\u00a0years between February\u00a01998 and October\u00a02002.[4]Chief Economic Adviser[edit] Dr. Ashok Lahiri at a Press Conference as the Chief Economic Advisor along with the Union Finance Secretary D. C. Gupta, the Union Revenue Secretary Binita Roy in New Delhi on 20 April 2004Lahiri was appointed Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India (CEA) by the prime minister-led Appointments Committee of the Cabinet in December\u00a02002,[4] and demitted the office of CEA in June\u00a02007,[4] serving in the Ministry of Finance for more than four\u00a0years. Lahiri served as the CEA under the premiership of Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Manmohan Singh.[5]Chairman of Bandhan Bank[edit]Lahiri was appointed the non-executive, part-time chairman of the newly-formed Bandhan Bank in July\u00a02015;[6][7] Lahiri resigned from his position as chairman in April\u00a02018 to serve as a full-time member of the Fifteenth\u00a0Finance Commission.[8][9][10]Member of the Fifteenth\u00a0Finance Commission[edit] Dr. Ashok Lahiri addressing a Press Conference as the acting Chairman of the 15th Finance Commission regarding the Agriculture Conference, in Chandigarh on May 03, 2018.Lahiri was appointed a part-time member of the Fifteenth\u00a0Finance Commission in November\u00a02017 by the President of India,[11][12][13][14] Lahiri was elevated to a full-time member in April\u00a02018 and was accorded the status of a minister of state.[15][16]Politics[edit]He was declared as a candidate to contest from the Alipurduar constituency in the 2021 West Bengal election[17] but due to animosity among the local BJP members in Alipurduar, his name was later withdrawn from Alipurduar constituency in the list of candidates.[18] He was later declared as a candidate for the Balurghat constituency.[19]He won against TMC candidate Shekhar Dasgupta by securing 36,143 votes.[20]References[edit]^ “Balurghat Election Result 2021 Live Updates: Ashok Kumar Lahiri of BJP Wins”. 2 May 2021.^ “Economics \u2014> Alumni”. Presidency University, Kolkata. Retrieved 17 December 2018.^ a b c “About Bandhan Bank \u2014> Governance \u2014> Ashok Kumar Lahiri”. Bandhan Bank. Archived from the original on 8 November 2017. Retrieved 17 December 2018.^ a b c d e f g h i j “Ashok K. Lahiri”. Brookings Institution. Retrieved 17 December 2018.^ Pandey, Kirti (25 March 2021). “Celebrated economist Ashok Lahiri, BJP candidate from Balurghat worked with Vajpayee and Manmohan Singh”. Timesnownews.com. Archived from the original on 25 March 2021. Retrieved 4 April 2021.^ Law, Abhishek (9 July 2015). “Ashok Lahiri to chair Bandhan Bank board; founder unveils logo”. Business Line. Kolkata: The Hindu Group. ISSN\u00a00971-7528. OCLC\u00a0456162874. Retrieved 17 December 2018.^ Acharya, Namrata (10 July 2015). “Bandhan appoints former chief economic adviser Ashok Lahiri as chairman”. Business Standard. Kolkata: Business Standard Ltd. OCLC\u00a0496280002. Retrieved 17 December 2018.^ Jagannathan, K. T. (9 April 2018). “Ashok Kumar Lahiri quits as part-time chairman of Bandhan Bank”. The Hindu. Chennai: N. Ram. ISSN\u00a00971-751X. OCLC\u00a013119119. Retrieved 17 December 2018.^ Kanungo, Soumonty (9 April 2018). “Ashok Kumar Lahiri quits as non-executive chairman of Bandhan Bank”. Livemint. Kolkata: Vivek Khanna. Retrieved 17 December 2018.^ “Ashok Lahiri steps down as chairman of Bandhan Bank”. Business Standard. Business Standard Ltd. 11 April 2018. OCLC\u00a0496280002. Retrieved 17 December 2018 \u2013 via PressReader.^ “First Meeting of the Fifteenth Finance Commission, North Block, New Delhi”. Finance Commission of India. 4 December 2017. Archived from the original on 6 January 2018. Retrieved 20 January 2018.^ Mishra, Asit Ranjan. “15th Finance Commission to hold first meeting today”. Livemint. New Delhi: HT Media Ltd. Archived from the original on 3 December 2017. Retrieved 20 January 2018.^ Surabhi (4 December 2017). “15th Finance Commission holds first meeting”. Business Line. New Delhi: The Hindu Group. Archived from the original on 4 December 2017. Retrieved 20 January 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)^ “15th Finance Commission holds first meeting, seeks academic inputs from leading think-tanks – Firstpost”. Firstpost. New Delhi. Press Trust of India. 4 December 2017. Retrieved 31 March 2018.^ “Ashok Lahiri appointed full-time member of 15th Finance Commission”. Business Standard. New Delhi: Business Standard Ltd. Press Trust of India. 3 May 2018. OCLC\u00a0496280002. Retrieved 31 July 2018.^ “Ashok Lahiri full-time member of fin panel”. The Tribune. New Delhi. Tribune News Service. 4 May 2018. Retrieved 17 December 2018.^ “BJP fields former CEA Ashok Lahiri”. @businessline. 14 March 2021. Archived from the original on 14 March 2021. Retrieved 3 April 2021.^ “Ashok lahiri replaced as BJP candidate”. @businessline. 18 March 2021. Archived from the original on 18 March 2021. Retrieved 3 April 2021.^ Das, Madhuparna (23 March 2021). “Ex-CEA Ashok Lahiri is now BJP’s candidate in Balurghat after being dropped from Alipurduar”. ThePrint. Retrieved 3 April 2021.^ “Balurghat, West Bengal Assembly election result 2021”. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x4"},{"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki41\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"Enzyklop\u00e4die"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki41\/ashok-lahiri-wikipedia\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"Ashok Lahiri – Wikipedia"}}]}]