Sriram Balasubramanian is a reputed Economist and Author whose key areas of interest include global macroeconomics, economic trends in emerging markets, new growth models, Indic/Dharmic culture & an innate passion for India’s socio-economic happenings. He has contributed Op-Eds and interviews to publications such as the New York Times, Foreign Policy, Forbes India, Bloomberg, The Hindu, The Times of India, Swarajya among others. Moreover, he has also been a panelist in CNBC-TV18 and Bloomberg podcasts. 

He has authored two books ‘Jamba-The Joint Family’ and ‘The Wizards’ (US version). The former was launched by Amish Tripathi, India’s Number 1 selling author and was shortlisted to be at the ‘Third Annual Literary Festival IAAC Festival’ by the Indo-American arts council. The latter was launched by the Norwegian Ambassador to the USA, in NYC and was featured in the NYTimes as part of their World Chess Championship coverage in NYC in 2016.

His upcoming book is an analysis of Kautilya’s ‘Arthashastra’ which has been in the works for half a decade. It is expected to be published soon by Bloomsbury publishers.

Besides being an alumnus of Columbia University, he has had wide international exposure living, working and studying in more than 3 continents.