Consulting Editor, Business Standard & Consultant, Research and Information Systems for Developing Countries (RIS)

Subhomoy Bhattacharjee, with twenty-two years of experience in journalism, is a Consulting Editor for Business Standard. His areas of interest include public policy, especially regulatory issues, finance and urban development. Subhomoy writes for The Indian Express on topics including finance and government policy, and other regulatory issues. A former government officer, he has authored India’s first book on the Special Economic Zones. Subhomoy studied economics at Shri Ram College of Commerce and at Delhi School of Economics, and began his career as a civil servant, joining the Indian Information Service through the civil services exam.

He has subsequently worked with The Economic Times and was until recently the deputy editor at The Indian Express while writing for The Financial Express too. Presently, he is also a consultant with Research and Information Systems for Developing Countries (RIS). He frequently appears on television and radio on economic news programmes and has lectured in several universities in India and abroad, on public policy.