RAJIV KUMAR IS THE NEXT VICE-CHAIRMAN OF NITI AAYOG

Rajiv Kumar will be the next Vice-Chairman of NITI Aayog.He will succeed Arvind Panagariya, who had recently quit as Vice Chairman of Niti Aayog.

Rajiv Kumar is currently a senior fellow at the Centre for Policy Research, a non-governmental think tank on public policy based out of New Delhi.

Kumar, who holds a DPhil in economics from Oxford and a PhD from Lucknow University, had served as Director & Chief Executive of the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER).