Radhika Pandey is an associate professor at the National Institute for Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP). She was part of the research team for the Financial Sector Legislative Reforms Commission, the key legislative commission responsible for reviewing and re-writing the financial legal framework for the country. She was co-coordinator for the Ministry of Finance Task-Force on Public Debt Management, and was also part of the research team for the Working Group on Foreign Investments. Currently, Dr. Pandey is part of the technical research secretariat for the Department of Economic Affairs-NIPFP research program. In addition to teaching at the National Law University in Jodhpur, Dr. Pandey has written several articles and working papers on subjects such as consumption in Indian households, the evaluation of India’s inflation targeting framework, and the evolution of capital controls on foreign institutional investment in India. She has published papers in business cycle measurement in India to track India’s growth in real time. Dr. Pandey writes a weekly column for ThePrint and has written articles for Business Standard, Bloomberg Quint and Ideas for India. She holds a Ph.D. in economics from Jai Narain Vyas University, Jodhpur, Rajasthan.