Mr. Saugata Bhattacharya is Executive Vice President and Chief Economist at Axis Bank. He has previously worked with IDFC and HUL. He is a member of the CII National Committees on EXIM and on Financial Reporting, the CII Western Region CEO-Economists Forum, and the Assocham National Council on Banking. He has been part of RBI, Ministry of Finance and Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs Committees earlier. He is a member of the Executive Council of the PGDM programme of the National Institute of Bank Management (NIBM), Pune and the Academic Council of NMIMS, Mumbai. He was named a Chevening Fellow of the UK Govt in 2017, as an alumni of King’s College, London.