Sanjeev Sanyal is an Indian economist and environmentalist.

He is Founder of the Sustainable

Planet Institute. He is also one of Asia's leading financial economists and was Deutsche Bank's
Chief Economist for the region till 2008 as well as Adjunct Fellow of the Institute of Policy
Studies at the National University of Singapore. He played an important role in changing the
image of India as an international investment destination and is the author of the bestselling book
"The Indian Renaissance: India's Rise after a Thousand Years of Decline" (published by
Penguin). It is about how for the past thousand years, India gradually closed itself off to the
world and declined, but Manmohan Singh's reforms in 1991 reversed that and started India's rise
again.
Sanjeev Sanyal is also a well regarded expert on the economics of cities and financial hubs. He
was awarded the Eisenhower Fellowship for 2007 in for his work on urban systems. He is 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 Director of the Green Accounting for
Indian States Project - an environmetal accounting project. He has been closely involved with
Aavishkaar MicroVenture Fund which won the UN's World Business Award for 2006. He has
also been a Visiting Scholar at Oxford University and has also advised the UK government,
Uinted Nations Environment Programme, and other international agencies.
Educated at Shri Ram College of Commerce, Delhi University and St John's College, Oxford
where he was a Rhodes Scholar (1992-1995). CNBC profiled him as a "Young Turk" in 2008 in
recognition to his contributions to Asian financial markets.