| Author Info | - Dhiraj Nayyar is Officer on Special Duty (OSD) and Head, Economics, Finance and Commerce, NITI Aayog. He is responsible for all policy matters related to the Departments of Economic Affairs, Revenue, Financial Services, Investment & Public Asset Management, and Commerce.
Dhiraj trained as an economist at St. Stephen's College, Delhi; Merton College; Oxford and Trinity College, Cambridge. After teaching Development Economics at the University of Cambridge, Dhiraj switched to journalism. He was Opinion Editor of The Financial Express, Deputy Editor of India Today, Editor-at-large at Firstpost.com, India Columnist for Bloomberg View, and Managing Editor of The Quint.
In 2013, Dhiraj Nayyar was awarded a Bastiat Prize for journalism by the California-based, Reason Foundation.
Dhiraj Nayyar lives in Delhi with his wife, Divya and Dali, their dog. He tweets @nayyardhiraj.
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