Sanjeev Sanyal

Sanjeev Sanyal is Founder and President of the Sustainble Planet Institute. He is also Steering Committee Member of Urban Age (at the London School of Economics) and a Senior Fellow of WWF. He writes a regular column on urban issues in the business daily Business Standard and is the author of the bestselling book "The Indian Renaissance" (published by Penguin 2008). He was awarded the Eisenhower Fellowship in 2007 in recognition for his work on the economics of cities. Sanjeev Sanyal is also one of Asia's leading financial economists and was Deutsche Bank's Chief Economist for the region till 2008. He has been a Fellow of the Institute of Policy Studies (National University of Singapore) and Visiting Scholar at Oxford University. He attended Shri Ram College of Commerce in Delhi University, and St.John's College, Oxford where he was a Rhodes Scholar.