Dr Ashima Goyal is Emeritus Professor of Economics at the Indira Gandhi Institute for Development Research. She is currently a member of India’s Monetary Policy Committee. Goyal won two best research awards at Global Development Network meetings in Tokyo (2000), and Rio de Janeiro (2001), and was selected as one of the most powerful women in business by Business Today Magazine over 2021–23. She was Visiting Fellow at the Economic Growth Centre at Yale University and Fulbright Senior Research Fellow at Claremont Graduate University in the United States.