Dr. Pami Dua is Senior Professor of Economics and Former Director of the Delhi School of Economics. She has also served as Chairperson, Research Council; Dean Research of Humanities and Social Sciences; and Dean of Academic Activities and Projects at the University of Delhi. She was an external member of the first Monetary Policy Committee of the Reserve Bank of India. She has also served as the President of the Indian Econometric Society. She has served as Co-Chair of the Task Force on Macroeconomics, Trade and Livelihoods under Think20 (T20) India / G20 India. She is also an Honorary Distinguished Fellow (Non-resident) of the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR), Mumbai. She is a Senior Research Fellow with the Economic Cycle Research Institute (ECRI) in New York and has been the Principal Coordinator from India of the United Nations World Project LINK for almost two decades. She earlier served as the President of the Indian Econometric Society and as Editor of the Indian Economic Review, journal of the Delhi School of Economics, for almost two decades. She has published widely in time series econometrics, forecasting, macroeconometrics, monetary policy and business cycle analysis. She has almost four decades of experience in teaching of macroeconomics, econometrics and forecasting. She earlier taught at the University of Connecticut, USA and Wayne State University, Michigan, USA, and has also been affiliated with Yale University as well as Columbia University. She holds a Doctorate in Economics from London School of Economics. She has been conferred the highest honour of the University of Delhi, Nishtha Dhriti Satyam Samman, given to a person of eminence who has made an extraordinary contribution to the development of the University. She has also been conferred the National Systems Gold Medal by the Systems Society of India for her outstanding contributions in the area of Economics and Social Sciences. She has been honoured with the Distinguished Alumni Award from Lady Shri Ram College.