Ajit Ranade and Viral Acharya decode The dollar at a crossroad - What Does it Mean for India?
- September 28th
- 6:30 PM IST
- Online (Global)
The launch session of the Signal Series has officially wrapped!
Thank you to everyone who attended live. You can catch the full recording of “The Dollar at a Crossroads: What Does It Mean for India?” below.
Have any questions about the session? Share them in the Youtube comments section. Dr. Ajit Ranade and Prof. Viral Acharya will return for another webinar and attempt to address all of them.
Till then, stay tuned for details on our next Signal Series talk coming very soon.
When: September 28th | 6:30 PM IST
Where: Online (Global)
How: 60-minute talk followed by live audience Q&A
“The Signal Series: Insights for what’s next?” is a new flagship global knowledge series hosted as part of the IIT Bombay Alumni Association’s Silver Jubilee.
For our inaugural session, distinguished alumni Ajit Ranade and Viral Acharya led a webinar unpacking global macroeconomic shifts, currency dynamics, and their direct implications for India’s economic trajectory: especially timely in light of the recent BRICS summit.
SPEAKER BIOS
Dr. Ajit Ranade
Dr. Ajit Ranade is presently Senior Fellow and Trustee with the Pune International Centre. His thirty-six year career has spanned academic, research and corporate assignments. He served as the Vice Chancellor of Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, a deemed University in Pune from February 2022 till October 2024. Prior to that he was Group Executive President and Chief Economist with the Aditya Birla Group, an Indian multinational conglomerate.
Ranade has been a member of the executive committees of apex industry chambers such as Confederation of Indian Industry, FICCI and MCCIA, and has served on several committees of the Reserve Bank of India. He has earlier been a faculty member at universities in the U.S.A. and in India.
He serves on the board of several companies and trusts, and has been a newspaper columnist for over two decades, writing on economics and current topics. He is a co-author of an award winning book “Rising to the China Challenge” (2021). Ranade is co-founder and trustee of Association for Democratic Reforms, a citizens’ watchdog body.
Ranade was educated at Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay and Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. He received his PhD in Economics from Brown University, USA. He received the Distinguished Alumnus award from IIT Bombay in 2009.
Viral V. Acharya is the C.V. Starr Professor of Economics in the Department of Finance at New York University Stern School of Business (NYU-Stern). He was a Deputy Governor at the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) during January 2017 to 23rd July 2019 in charge of Monetary Policy, Financial Markets, Financial Stability, and Research.
He is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) in Corporate Finance and International Finance and Macroeconomics, a Research Affiliate at the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), and Research Associate of the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI).
He is a member of the Bundesbank Research Council since January 2025, a Scientific Advisor to the Sveriges Riksbank since February 2024, and an invited member of the Bellagio Group of academics and policy-makers from central banks and finance ministries since 2021. He is or has been an Academic Advisor to the Federal Reserve Banks of Chicago, Cleveland, Kansas City, New York and Philadelphia, and the Board of Governors, and has provided Academic Expert service to the Bank for International Settlements, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. He was a member of the Climate-related Financial Risk Advisory Committee (CFRAC) of the Financial Stability Oversight Council for 2023-26 and also a member of the Financial Advisory Roundtable (FAR) of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York for 2020-25.
His primary research interest is in theoretical and empirical analysis of systemic risk of the financial sector, its regulation and its genesis in government- and policy induced distortions, an inquiry that cuts across several other strands of research – credit risk and liquidity risk, their interactions and agency-theoretic foundations, as well as their general equilibrium consequences. In recent work, he has also studied inflation uncertainty and the impact of pandemic and climate-change related risks.