Prasanna Tantri is an Associate Professor of Finance at the Indian School of Business (ISB) and Executive Director of the Centre for Analytical Finance (CAF). He previously served as an Independent Director and Chair of the Audit and CSR Committees on the Board of Power Finance Corporation Limited, Government of India.

His research focuses on banking, financial inclusion, and the political economy of finance, with publications in leading journals including the Review of Financial Studies, Review of Finance, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Journal of Accounting Research, Management Science, and Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis. He has presented his research at premier academic forums and has received several competitive research grants and teaching awards.

Prasanna’s work has been widely cited in policy and media, including The Economist, Bloomberg, Mint, and The Economic Times, and has been referenced in the Union Budget, the Economic Survey of India, and RBI reports. He has advised and presented his work to the Prime Minister’s Office, Ministry of Finance, RBI, and several central and state government bodies. He also headed the group entrusted by the Government of Telangana with drafting the Telangana Vision 2047 document, contributing to the development of the state’s long-term vision and strategic roadmap. Over the years, he has also contributed to several high-level advisory and expert bodies, including the Technical Advisory Committee under DMEO, NITI Aayog, and expert groups constituted by the National Stock Exchange and SEBI. These engagements reflect his broader contribution to translating rigorous academic research into policy and regulatory practice.

Prof. Krishnamurthy V. Subramanian is a Professor of Finance at the Indian School of Business. He served as the 17th Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India (2018–2021) and as Executive Director at the International Monetary Fund, representing India and South Asia. His work is distinguished by the application of first-principles economic reasoning to high-stakes policy challenges in emerging economies.

In 2026, Prof. Subramanian was selected as the first Indian economist in the 85-year history of the University of Chicago Alumni Award for Professional Achievement, a tradition that has previously honoured at least 14 Nobel laureates, including Paul Samuelson, Herbert Simon, Gary Becker, Myron Scholes, and Claudia Goldin, alongside global thinkers such as James Watson (co-discoverer of DNA), astronomer Carl Sagan, and marketing pioneer Philip Kotler. He belongs to an elite group of individuals to have received Distinguished Alumnus honours from all three of his alma maters: IIT Kanpur, IIM Calcutta, and the University of Chicago.

In its official citation, the University of Chicago described Prof. Subramanian's three Economic Surveys of India as "landmark" documents that provided "the intellectual foundation for India's approach to self-reliance, anchored in competitive markets, policy autonomy, and inclusive growth." The citation further noted that his early public articulation of a V-shaped economic recovery "helped anchor confidence in India's economic resilience at a time of deep global uncertainty.”

As India's Chief Economic Adviser during the once-in-a-century COVID-19 crisis, Prof. Subramanian worked with senior political leadership to help design the macro-financial and public-health architecture of India's response and to conceptualise Atmanirbhar Bharat (Self reliant India). He was among the few policymakers among G-20 economies to correctly diagnose the crisis as a supply-side disruption and articulated a balanced policy framework that delivered non-inflationary growth while preserving macroeconomic stability. His thematic Economic Surveys, a departure from past practice, introduced new frameworks emphasising ethical wealth creation, supply-side reform, and public-investment-led growth, and continue to guide India's economic approach. The scale of these decisions, affecting 1.4 billion people, underscored the real-world stakes of economic reasoning.

At the International Monetary Fund, Prof. Subramanian engaged directly with sovereign leadership during major balance-of-payments crises in South Asia, contributing to the design, negotiation, and oversight of stabilisation programmes that balanced fiscal credibility, social protection, and climate resilience. Across engagements with multilateral institutions including the United Nations, he has advanced data-driven reforms in global economic governance aimed at fairness, transparency, and institutional credibility.

Prof. Subramanian's scholarly research in financial economics has appeared in the world's leading journals. He is the author of India@100, a national bestseller presenting an evidence based framework for India's long-term growth trajectory toward its centenary in 2047, and Money: A Zero-Sum Game, which develops a first-principles, balance-sheet-based framework for understanding money creation and monetary transmission. Known for his ability to translate complex economic ideas into accessible language while remaining grounded in scholarly rigour, he has been described in the media as "the common man's economist," a reflection of his ability to combine scholarly rigour with public clarity.

His work reflects a central conviction: that rigorous economic reasoning, when combined with the courage to act under uncertainty, can shape outcomes for hundreds of millions of people.

Prof. Subramanian holds an MBA and a PhD from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, an MBA from IIM Calcutta, and a B.Tech from IIT Kanpur.