NCAER appoints Poonam Gupta as new Director General

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World bank economist Poonam Gupta has been appointed as the new Director General of the policy think tank “National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER)”.
Gupta is the first woman director general of NCAER.
She would succeed Shekhar Shah who was appointed in 2011 and will complete his second five year term in early May 2021.
Gupta is currently working as a lead economist at the Washington DC-based World Bank.
President of NCAER – Nandan Nilekani.