Dr. Badri Narayanan Gopalakrishnan serves NITI Aayog – Government of India, as a Fellow, wherein he headed the verticals of Trade and Commerce, Strategic Economic Dialogue, International Cooperation and Vision India@2047. Prior to joining the GoI, he has been an economist working to analyse a wide range of economic (mainly international trade), disruptive technology, environmental/energy, labor and public health policies. He has informed the process of decision making in several major economic policies such as free trade agreements, technology regulations, etc., both through his academic research and consulting/advisory projects. Badri simultaneously holds several affiliations; Affiliate/Courtesy Faculty Member with University of Washington Seattle, Oregon State University and Boston College, Non-Resident Senior Fellow with European Center for International Political Economy, Brussels, National Council for Applied Economic Research (NCAER) and Center for Social and Economic Progress (formerly Brookings India), New Delhi.
He was on the Board of Directors of British American Business Council. He has also been a consultant with the UN, World Bank, ILO, FAO, WHO, ICRIER, IMF and several other international organizations as well as government/private bodies across the world. He has also been engaged with the startup community across the world as an advisor and co-founder. He had founded a consulting firm named “Infinite Sum Modelling” in 2015, which has a global presence, with offices in Vancouver, Seattle, Los Angeles, Beijing, Hong Kong, Coimbatore, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Chennai and New Delhi.
He has been a consultant to several organizations such as McKinsey, KPMG, PWC, World Bank, UN, ADB, Harvard University, LSE, the Commonwealth Secretariat, etc. He has published over 150 papers and 8 books cited thousands of times in journals as well as popular media (FT, BBC, CNN, WP, The Economist, etc.), in reputed journals such as Nature Communication, Energy Economics, Network and Spatial Economics, Economic Modelling, Applied Economics, Agricultural Economics, etc., and presented his work in over 30 countries across the world, including several times as a Key Note/Plenary Speaker.
