udaibir das
DISTINGUISHED fellow
udaibir das
Udaibir Das is a former central banker and a senior international financial policy expert. Mr. Das worked in different capacities at the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the Bank for International Settlements, the Bank of Guyana, and the Reserve Bank of India. He was also on the Questrom School of Business faculty at Boston University.
Mr. Das led macro-financial surveillance and technical policy missions to over forty countries of different income levels. He focused on how finance can play a role in economic development and growth. Mr. Das was involved with crisis-related work, including the Asian, Russian, and 2008 financial crises, and most recently, the COVID crisis. He has worked with various Basel, Madrid, and Paris-based international groupings developing standards and policy guidance on financial sector and capital markets issues. Mr. Das is widely published and a frequent speaker.
Mr. Das's current interests focus on the evolving global macro-financial landscape, demographic, climatic, and technological forces that impact international finance, money, and multilateral arrangements and their implications for emerging and developing markets policymakers.
In addition to his role as a Distinguished Fellow at ORF America, Mr. Das is also a Distinguished Visiting Faculty at the Kautilya School for Public Policy (India), a Senior Non-Resident Expert at the Bank of England (UK), and the Toronto Center (Canada), and a Non-Resident Fellow of the National Council of Applied Economic Research (India). He is also a Senior Advisor for the International Forum of Sovereign Wealth Funds (UK).
