Question: Who has been appointed the Director-General of the policy think tank National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER)?
(a) Poonam Gupta
(b) Deepak Rawat
(c) Akash Bhatia
(d) Shekhar Shah
Answer: (a)
Related facts:
- Poonam Gupta will be the new director-general of the policy think tank National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER).
- She will become the first woman to hold the post.
- She will succeed Shekhar Shah.
- Poonam Gupta is the lead economist at the World Bank in Washington DC.
- Prior to joining the World Bank in 2013, she was the Reserve Bank of India Chair Professor at the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP) and a professor of macroeconomics at the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER).
By-Amar Mani Upadhyay