Deepak Nayyar is currently Vice-Chancellor of the University of Delhi. During his career he has taught economics at the University of Oxford, the University of Sussex, the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, and Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. His academic life has been interspersed with short periods in government, most notably as Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India and Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Finance. Professor Nayyar is a member of many commissions, committees and boards, both national and international.