Mr.

Dharmakirti Joshi
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Chief Economist
CRISIL Limited

Dharmakirti Joshi is Chief Economist, CRISIL Limited

At CRISIL, his purview includes demand forecasting, assessing macroeconomic scenarios, and
analyzing and monitoring the impact of macroeconomic domestic and external shocks on the
economy. He has extensive experience in macroeconomic analysis and medium-term
assessments of the Indian economy.

He was member of the Working Group of Savings for the 12th Five Year Plan. He is also a
member of the industry monitoring group of Reserve Bank of India. He was the Chairman of
Economic Affairs Committee of Bombay Chamber of Commerce and is currently member of
Economic Policy Group of Confederation of Indian Industry and Indian Merchant Chamber. He
regularly writes for leading newspapers and expresses his views on the economy in the electronic
media.

Joshi has spent 25 years in economic research and consultancy. He spent 11 years at the National
Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER) before moving on to the Central Electricity
Regulatory Commission (CERC), New Delhi, and then CRISIL. At NCAER, Joshi worked on short
and medium term macroeconomic forecasting using Computable General Equilibrium and
econometric models, macroeconomic reforms and fiscal policy related issues. At CERC, he worked
on regulatory, competition and tariff related issues in the Indian power sector.

Joshi holds a bachelors and Masters degree from Honours School in Economics, Punjab
University, Chandigarh, India. He has attended program on Macroeconomic Policy and
Management at Harvard University and was a visiting scholar to Economic Research Unit of
University of Pennsylvania.