Mr. Suman Bery - Chief Economist, Shell

Mr. Suman Bery joined Shell Global as Chief Economist on 1 February 2012. Prior to this, he was Director-General and Chief Executive of the National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER) in India from 2001–2012. He was also the Country Director, India Central, International Growth Centre (IGC) in New Delhi. The IGC is a research initiative of the London School of Economics and the Oxford University, dedicated to improving evidence-based policy-making in developing countries.

Mr. Bery has been a member of the Indian prime minister’s Economic Advisory Council and India’s National Statistical Commission. He has served on several government committees that deal with India’s financial sector, the challenge facing its economic diplomacy and resource security. Mr Bery worked at the World Bank from 1972 to 2000 in a range of functions related to economic research and country policy, with a geographic focus on Latin America and Eastern Europe, and a specialisation in financial sector issues. On leave from the World Bank between 1992 and 1994, he also served as an advisor to the governor and deputy governors of the Reserve Bank of India at the time of India’s economic reform in the early–1990s.

Mr Bery has studied philosophy, politics and economics at Oxford and also holds a Master of Public Affairs degree from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University.