Mr.Bery is the
current Director General of the National Council of Applied Economic
Research, New Delhi. He assumed this position on January
1, 2001.
After schooling in India and the U.K., Mr. Bery graduated
from Magdalen College, Oxford with a first class degree in Politics, Philosophy
and Economics (PPE). His graduate work was
at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton
University, from which he holds the degree of Master of Public and
International Affairs. His Ph.D. dissertation research (also at Princeton)
was on the monetary policy instruments of the Reserve Bank of India.
Prior to this assignment, he was working at the World Bank
in Washington, D.C., USA as the Lead Economist for Brazil.
Other experience on Latin America included work on Argentina, Uruguay,
Paraguay, Ecuador and Peru.
Between 1992 and 1994 Mr. Bery held the position of Special
Consultant to the Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, based in Mumbai.
While at the RBI, he was actively involved in developing proposals for reform
of the government debt markets, linkages between general financial sector
deregulation and the development of the bond market, as well as issues of
market structure, drawing upon the experience of other developing countries.
Mr. Bery's publications include papers on
Indian Financial Sector reforms; Reforms of Public Sector Banks; Banking Crises
in Latin America and the Political Economy of Economic reforms in developing
countries. Mr. Bery serves on the Central Board of the State Bank of India,
India's largest bank. He has been a member of several government committees and
task forces.
