Dr. V. Anantha Nageswaran is a writer, author, teacher and consultant. He writes a weekly column for Mint on Tuesdays. He has taught graduate-level courses on macroeconomics and exchange rates at several academic institutions in Singapore and in India, including at the Indian Institute of Management in Bengaluru and Indore. He is an Honorary Senior Advisor to the International Financial Services Authority of India. He was a part-time member of the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister of India from 2019 to 2021. He is on the Board of a few companies of the TVS Group. In his corporate career spanning seventeen years from 1994 to 2011, he was a Currency Economist at the Union Bank of Switzerland, Head of Research and Investment Consulting in Credit Suisse Private Banking in Asia, Head of Asia Research and Global Chief Investment Officer at Bank Julius Baer. He earned his doctoral degree from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst in 1994 for his work on exchange rate behaviour. In 1985, he received a Post-Graduate Diploma in Management from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.