Economist Isher Judge Ahluwalia passes away at 74
Noted economist, Isher Judge Ahluwalia passed away on Saturday morning after a month battle with brain cancer.
As her health declined, she stepped down from her role as the chairman of Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER), a position she held for the last 15 years.
During her leadership, she was credited with building one of the finest economic think tank in India and was offered an honorary position as the chairperson emeritus at ICRIER.
Isher, who would have turned 75 on October 1, is survived by her husband Montek Singh Ahluwalia, a former Deputy Chairperson of the Planning Commission and their two sons.
Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, Chairperson and Managing Director of Biocon tweeted, “Isher Ahluwalia, my dear dear friend and a brilliant remarkable intellectual economist passed away after a brave battle with cancer. My deepest condolences to Montek Singh Ahluwalia n his sons Pavan & Aman n the family. She will be hugely missed RIP."
A Padma Bhushan Awardee, Isher holds PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), master’s from the Delhi School of Economics, and bachelor’s
Christopher Columbus (–) was an Italian explorer, colonizer, and navigator. He is remembered as the principal European discoverer of the Americas and he helped bring the Americas to the forefront of the western consciousness. His discoveries and travels laid the framework for the later European colonisation of Latin and North America.
“You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.”
– Christopher Columbus
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Christopher Columbus was born in the Republic of Genoa, in what is today Northwestern Italy. His father was a middle-class wool merchant, though it was relatively humble beginnings for what he later became. Columbus learnt to sail from an early age and later worked as a business agent, travelling around Europe to England, Ireland and later along the West coast of Africa. He was not a scholar but was an enthusiastic self-educated man, who read extensively on astronomy, science and navigation. He also became fluent in Latin, Portuguese and Spanish.
Christopher Columbus was a believer in the spherical nature of the world (some Christians still held the view that the world was flat). An ambitious
Isher Judge Ahluwalia is the Chairperson of the Board of Governors for the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER). Prior to this, she served as ICRIER’s Director and Chief Executive.
She is the appointed chair of the High Powered Expert Committee on Urban Infrastructure of the Ministry of Urban Development. Dr Ahluwalia is also a member of the Government of India’s National Manufacturing Competitiveness Council; is on the boards of a number of premier research institutes in India, and was Vice-Chairperson of the Punjab State Planning Board from to
Dr Ahluwalia, a former Chairperson of the Board of Trustees of the International Food Policy Research Institute, was a member of the Eminent Persons Group of the Asian Development Bank, which submitted its report entitled Towards a New Asian Development Bank in a New Asia in She is currently a member of the External Review and Advisory Board to the Asian Development Bank on its flagship study Institutions for Regionalism.
In , Dr Ahluwalia received the Padma Bhushan award from the President of India for her services to the fields of education and literature. She received a BA in eco
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Isher Judge Ahluwalia&#;hailing from a modest family of 11 children with a family business of pickle making that was not doing all that good obtained her Bachelor&#;s degree (Economics Hons.) from Presidency College, Kolkata; Masters from Delhi School of Economics and Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Economics working on the topic, &#;A Macro-Economic Model of the Indian Economy Analysing Inflation During &#; under the supervision of Dr Stanley Fisher in &#;led an outstanding life with an inquisitive mind and unflagging thrust for growth and knowledge to become one of the leading policy economists of contemporary India.
She started her career as a policy economist at the International Monetary Fund, Washington DC and then moved over to India in along with her husband, Montek Singh Ahluwalia, who was then selected as Economic Adviser in the Finance Ministry.
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