Odisha Man Appointed as ICRIER Director

Bhubaneswar (Reporters Today Bureau): Odia man World Bank economist Deepak Mishra has been appointed as the Director and Chief Executive of the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER).

He will assume the office replacing Rajat Kathuria, who has been serving the premier institution – a Delhi-based think-tank – as the Director and Chief Executive since September 1, 2012.

Presently, Mishra is working as the Practice Manager in the World Bank’s Macroeconomics, Trade, and Investment Global Practice. He had held key positions at the World Bank. He was appointed as the co-director of the World Development Report 2016 (Digital Dividends) and country economist for Ethiopia, Pakistan, Sudan and Vietnam.