Economics & Public Policy | Aakanksha Arora | TEDxMountAbuSchool

She spotlighted the point that the quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor. She is from Indian Economic Service, 2013 batch. She has been working in Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance from December 2014 till date and has handled Macro Unit, Monetary Management & Banking Unit. She has been working closely with Chief Economic Adviser and Principal Economic Adviser on Economic Surveys from 2014-15 to 2021-22 and on various economic policy issues for the government. She represented India in the exchange programme between Indian Economic Service and UK’s Economic Service in 2018, where she worked with Office of Budget Responsibility (OBR) of UK. She assisted Dr Arvind Subramanian, the then Chief Economic Adviser to Govt of India on the committee on “Report on the Revenue Neutral Rate and Structure of Rates for the Goods and Services Tax (GST)”. Before joining Indian Economic Service, she was working as an Assistant Professor in Shri Ram College of Commerce, Delhi University from July 2012 to May 2013. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx