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Sanjeev Sanyal is an Indian economist, environmentalist and urban theorist. He is Deutsche Bank's Global Strategist and was named "Young Global Leader 2010" by the World Economic Forum at Davos. He is also the author of the best selling book "The Indian Renaissance: India's Rise after a Thousand Years of Decline" (published by Penguin and World Scientific).

Career

Sanjeev Sanyal has worked in financial markets since the mid-nineties and is widely regarded as one of Asia's leading economists. He is also a well-known environmentalist and expert on the economics of cities. He has been a strong advocate of including "walkability" and organic evolution in the way we think of cities. He is Founder of the Sustainable Planet Institute, a member of the Steering Committee of "Urban Age" at the London School of Economics and is also a Senior Fellow of the World Wildlife Fund. He is the co-founder and Director of GIST - an think-tank that is a pioneer in the field of environmental accounting. He has been closely involved with Aavishkaar MicroVenture Fund which won the UN's World Business Award for 2006. He has been an Adjunct Fellow of the Institute of Policy Studies

Institute of Policy Studies

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at the National University of Singapore and a Visiting Scholar

Visiting scholar

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at Oxford University. In 2009, he joined the Board of Governors of AFPRO, one of India's largest organizations working on food security and has also advised the UK government, United Nations Environment Programme, and other international agencies.

He writes frequent columns for Project Syndicate, Business Standard and several other publications.

Recognitions

Sanjeev Sanyal was named Young Global Leader for 2010 by the World Economic Forum in Davos, an honour given to select individuals below the age of 40 for outstanding contributions across disciplines including politics, academia, sports, business, and art. In 2008,CNBC profiled him as a "Young Turk" in recognition to his contributions to Asian financial markets. He was also awarded the Eisenhower Fellowship in 2007 for his work on urban systems.

Personal

He was born in Kolkata and studied at St.Xavier's School and St.James' School. He attended Shri Ram College of Commerce

Shri Ram College of Commerce

Shri Ram College of Commerce or Shri Ram College or SRCC is a constituent college of the University of Delhi, located in New Delhi, India. SRCC is the leading institute for higher studies in Commerce and Economics in India. It is considered as one of the most prestigious colleges in the...

, Delhi University and St John's College

St John's College, Oxford

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, Oxford

Oxford

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where he was a Rhodes Scholar representing India (1992–1995). He is from the same class as Bobby Jindal, the Republican governor of Louisiana, and Cory Booker, the Democrat Mayor of Newark, NJ.

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