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Ashok Gulati is currently Distinguished Professor at the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER). Prior to this, he was a Chairman of the Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices (CACP), Government of India (2011-14). He was an Independent Director of the Central Board of Directors of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) and National Commodity and Derivatives Exchange Limited (NCDEX). He is currently a Member of the Twelfth Audit Advisory Board of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India, and an Independent Director of the Board of Directors of Kotak Mahindra Bank Limited (KMBL) and Godrej Agrovet Limited. 

He was Director at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) for more than 10 years (2001-11). He worked as a Chair Professor NABARD at the Institute of Economic Growth (1998-2000), and prior to that he was Director/Chief Economist, Agriculture and Rural Development at National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER) from 1991 to 1997. 

Dr. Gulati has been deeply involved in policy analysis and advice in India. He was the youngest member of the Economic Advisory Council of Prime Minister Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee; Member of the Economic Advisory Council of the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh and Member of the State Planning Board of Karnataka. For his contributions to the field, the President of India honored him with the Padma Shri award in 2015. 

He has 22 books to his credit on Indian and Asian agriculture, in addition to numerous research papers in national and international Journals. He has been a prolific writer in leading newspapers in India, with his current column "From Plate to Plough" in the Indian Express and Financial Express. 

He completed his M.A. and Ph.D. from Delhi School of Economics.