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Fahad Siddiqui
Fahad Siddiqui is a Consultant at ICRIER. His primary areas of research and interest include macroeconomics, monetary policies, sovereign debt defaults, FX flows across borders, portfolio construction/optimisation and private equity risk allocation. He is presently associated with ICRIER-RBI Chair headed by Dr Jaimini Bhagwati, working on areas of monetary policy coordination and financial sector regulation. His prior experience has been in areas of buy-side investments in alternative assets such as hedge-funds, real estate and private equity across the globe as well as focusing on macro strategies to identify equity arbitrage opportunities. He represented the University of Oxford as a Chair at the BRIGHT 2012 conference conducted by League of European Research Universities at Amsterdam and wrote his thesis on Sovereign Default of Iceland. He has a Master’s in Business Administration from Said Business School, University of Oxford, UK and a Bachelor’s in Technology from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.
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Revisiting Indian inflation
Persistently high inflation is a key challenge facing India today. This column analyses long-term trends in Indian inflation and causal factors. It also discusses the current thinking of the RBI on revising and strengthening India’s monetary policy framework.
Boosting Lekhpal performance via data-driven feedback and recognition
The Lekhpals Actionable KPI System for Holistic Assessment and Management (LAKSHYAM) is an initiative to measure and enhance the work performance of Lekhpals, who are frontline functionaries of the Revenue Department of state governments. Based on a study conducted in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, between December 2024 and March 2025, Hasin and Ugale present early insights into the outcomes achieved by the initiative, and highlight some areas for improvement.