Montek Singh Ahluwalia Biography 
Montek Singh Ahluwalia is an Indian economist and civil servant from New Delhi. He served as Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission of India till end of UPA government in 2014, for which he is known most, and this position carries the rank of a Cabinet Minister. He was the first Director of the Independent Evaluation Office at the International Monetary Fund, before he was inducted to Planning Commission of India. His wife Isher Judge Ahluwalia is also an Indian economist and author, who currently serves as the Chairperson of Board of Governors, the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations.
Ahluwalia was born in New Delhi in 1943. He spent his younger days in Delhi where he completed his school and college studies. Later he became a Rhodes scholar at the University of Oxford, and studied at Magdalen College, to complete his post-graduation in Philosophy, Politics and Economics. After that he spent some time in Oxford and later with World Bank before returning to India. He received honorary degree of Doctor of Civil Law from the University of Oxford and many more honours during his stint with Oxford University as a reader and president of the prestigious Oxford Union.
Ahluwalia joined the World Bank in 1968. He became the youngest "Division Chief" in the World Bank's bureaucracy at the age of 28. He was given the charge of the Income Distribution Division in the World Bank's Development Research Centre. He returned to India in 1979. He assumed the power as Economic Adviser in the Ministry of Finance, and after that he held several senior positions as a civil servant, such as Special Secretary to the Prime Minister, Member of the Planning Commission etc.
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Updated: October 13, 2018
