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Abhijit Sen Gupta is a Senior Economist at the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, where he leads the research on economic viability of infrastructure projects. He has also led and contributed to reports on net zero transition, nature-based solutions and planetary health. Prior to this, he was a Senior Economics Officer in ADB’s South Asia Regional Department, focusing on international financial integration, fiscal decentralisation, global value chain participation and macroeconomic stabilisation, He also worked with the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and was an Associate Professor at the Jawaharlal Nehru University. He has published widely in international peer-reviewed journals.

He holds a PhD in International Economics from the University of California, Santa Cruz.

ndia-EU trade agreement. Dr Sen Gupta has also enjoyed stints in academia. As a tenured Associate Professor, he taught macroeconomics and international finance at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, and supervised several M.Phil. and Ph.D. students. He also taught intermediate macroeconomics at the senior under graduate level at the University of California, Santa Cruz.