Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India
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| Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India of Government of India | |
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Emblem of India
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Incumbent
Arvind Subramanian |
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| Residence | North Block, Secretariat Building, New Delhi |
| Appointer | Minister of Finance |
| Succession | Siddharth Tiwari |
The Chief Economic Adviser (CEA) is the economic advisor to the Government of India. The CEA is the ex-officio cadre controlling authority of the Indian Economic Service. The CEA is under the direct charge of the Minister of Finance.[1][2][3]
List of CEAs
| No | Name | Portrait | Term of office | |
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| 1 | JJ Anjaria | 1956 | 1961 | |
| 2 | IG Patel | 1961 | 1963 | |
| IG Patel | 1965 | 1967 | ||
| 3 | VK Ramaswamy | 1967 | 1969 | |
| 4 | Ashok Mitra | 1970 | 1972 | |
| 5 | Manmohan Singh | 1972 | 1976 | |
| 6 | RM Honavar | 1977 | 1980 | |
| 7 | Bimal Jalan | 1981 | 1988 | |
| 8 | Nitin Desai | 1988 | 1990 | |
| 9 | Deepak Nayyar | 1990 | 1991 | |
| 10 | Shankar Acharya | 1993 | 2001 | |
| 11 | Rakesh Mohan | 2001 | 2002 | |
| 12 | Ashok K Lahiri | 2002 | 2007 | |
| 13 | Arvind Virmani | 2007 | 2009 | |
| 14 | Kaushik Basu |  |
Dec 2009 | July 2012 |
| 15 | Raghuram Rajan |  |
10 August 2012 | 4 September 2013 |
| 16 | Arvind Subramanian | 90px | 16 October 2014 | Incumbent |
