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Kaushik Basu
Image courtesy of the Barack Obama Presidential Library
Kaushik Basu
Image courtesy of the Barack Obama Presidential Library

Kaushik Basu

Indian, 1952
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Place ActiveNew Delhi, India
Place ActiveIthaca, New York, United States
Place ActiveWashington, D.C., United States
Kaushik Basu is an Indian economist who served as the Chief Economic Advisor to the Government of India from 2009 until 2012. From 2012 until 2016, Basu then served as the Chief Economist of the World Bank. Basu has also worked as a professor at Cornell University.