Asia-Africa Growth Corridor

Sachin Chaturvedi, author and development economist, has been working on some of the key development challenges developing and least developed countries are facing, including the implementation of SDGs, and access to development finance and technology. He has served as a Global Justice Fellow at the MacMillan Centre for International Affairs at Yale University, Visiting Professor at the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) and consultant to several international agencies and institutions. He has authored and edited several books and published a large number of research papers in various journals. He is a member of the Board of Governors, Reserve Bank of India and is Director General of RIS.Anita Prakash is the Director (Policy Relations) of the Office of the President, at the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia, Jakarta. She plays a key role in policy support to leaders and senior officials in the governments of Southeast Asia, East Asia, Oceania, Europe, and Africa. Her research covers trade and economic cooperation in East Asia, South Asia and India, multilateralism, global governance and global value chains. Her current research focuses on connectivity and value chains in Indo-Pacific. She edited the Asia-Europe Connectivity Vision 2025 for the ASEM Summit in 2016 and the 'Brussels Report on Asia-Europe Connectivity' for the 12th ASEM Summit in 2018, and developed the vision document for the 'Asia-Africa Growth Corridor'. She was a Visiting Research Associate at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva from 2016-2019. Priyadarshi Dash is an Assistant Professor at the Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS), New Delhi. His research interests broadly cover macroeconomics, international trade and finance. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay, where he received the 'Award for Excellence in Thesis Work' in 2011. Dr. Dash has published a book and several papers in peer-reviewed journals. He was a Visiting Fellow at the Korea Institute for Industrial Economics and Trade (KIET), Seoul. He serves on the Editorial Board of Advances in Economics and Business, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, London, and is Managing Editor of G20 Digest.