New Delhi (22.04.2022): The NaMo administration on Friday late evening notified that NITI Ayog Vice Chairman Dr Rajiv Kumar steps down from the post w.e.f. April 30 paving the way for Dr Suman K Bery. Dr Bery was named as a Full-Time Member of NITI Ayog initially with immediate effect and upto 30.04.2022.

Further, Dr Bery will be considered appointed as Vice-Chairperson of NITI Ayog w.e.f. 01.05.2022 vice Dr Rajiv Kumar.

Suman K Bery, formerly Chief Economist at the Royal Dutch Shell Corporation in The Hague, was a member of the Council of Economic Advisors in the Office of the Prime Minister of India, and former Director-General of the National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER), New Delhi. Prior to his appointment to NCAER in 2001, he served at the World Bank in Washington,  D.C. as the Lead Economist for Latin America, and he led policy analysis and research projects on Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, Ecuador and Peru.

From 1992 to 1994, Suman held the position of Special Consultant to the Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, based in Mumbai. While at the Reserve Bank of India, he was actively involved in developing proposals for reform of the government debt markets, linkages between general financial sector deregulation and the development of the bond market, as well as issues of market structure, drawing upon the experience of other developing countries.