Managing Director and Chief Economist, Citi India
Samiran Chakraborty is a Managing Director and Chief Economist, India for Citigroup.
Before joining Citigroup, Samiran was the Head of South Asia Macro Research at Standard Chartered for six years and also Chief Economist for ICICI Bank, looking after a team of economists covering different aspects of the global economy with special reference to India.
He has been adjudged as the Top Economist in India by the Asset Magazine for three consecutive years, been featuring at the top of the Institutional Investors Survey of Economists for the last three years and the Best Economist for India in the Asiamoney Ranking of 2019 and 2021.
Before moving into the corporate sector, Samiran was a faculty of the Delhi School of Economics introducing students to different facets of macroeconomics and international finance. Samiran has done his Doctoral Research from Delhi School of Economics on the subject of Financial Liberalization and Economic Development.
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