Full-time Member of the Sixteenth Finance Commission & Former Director of the Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi and the Centre for Economic and Social Studies (CESS), Hyderabad

• Dr Manoj Panda is former Director of the Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi and the Centre for Economic and Social Studies (CESS), Hyderabad.
• He has served as Professor at the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai and as Senior Economist at the National Council of Applied Economic Research, Delhi
• He has worked as a member of several academic and non-academic bodies including the National Statistical Commission, the Financial Sector Regulatory Appointment Search Committee, the Third Pay Revision Committee for Central Public Sector Enterprises, and Board of Governors of research institutions.
• He holds a Ph.D. degree in Economics from the Indian Statistical Institute and spent a year at the Yale University, USA on a post-doctoral fellowship.
• He has undertaken short term assignments for several international organizations such as the World Bank, ADB, FAO, UN-ESCAP and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
• His research areas cover monitoring and analysis of macroeconomic trends and prospects, development of macroeconomic models, interaction of human development, poverty and carbon emission with economic growth.
• He has published a number of research papers in academic journals and books published by international and national publishing houses.