Gautam Chikermane is a Vice President at ORF. His areas of research are economics, politics and foreign policy.
A Jefferson Fellow (Fall 2001) at the East-West Center, Honolulu, Gautam has written eight books:- Reform Nation: From the Constraints of P.V. Narasimha Rao to the Convictions of Narendra Modi (HarperCollins, 2022)
- Reading Sri Aurobindo (Penguin Random House, 2022)
- Jailed for Doing Business (ORF, 2022)
- India 2030: The Rise of a Rajasic Nation (Penguin, 2021)
- 70 Policies that Shaped India: 1947 to 2017, Independence to $2.5 Trillion (ORF, 2018)
- Tunnel of Varanavat (Rupa, 2016)
- The Disrupter: Arvind Kejriwal and the Audacious Rise of the Aam Aadmi (Rupa, 2014)
- Five Decades of Decay (Rupa, 1997)
Expertise
- Economics
- Politics
- Foreign policy
Current Position(s)
- Associate Senior Research Fellow — India Desk, ISPI (Istituto per gli Studi di Politica Internazionale)
Past Position(s)
- New Media Director, Reliance Industries Ltd.
- Executive Editor (Business), Hindustan Times
- Editor Special Projects, The Indian Express
- Executive Editor, The Financial Express
- Executive Editor, Outlook Money
- Director, CARE India
- Director, Financial Planning Standards Board India
Education
- PG Diploma in Journalism, Indian Institute of Mass Communications
- BA (Hons) in Economics, Kirori Mal College, University of Delhi
