Gautam Chikermane is Vice President at ORF. His area of research is international and Indian economic policy.

A Jeffersen Fellow (Fall 2001) at the East-West Center, Honolulu, Gautam has written four books:

• 70 Policies that Built India: 1947 to 2017, Independence to $2.5 Trillion (ORF, 2018)

• Tunnel of Varanavat (Rupa, 2016)

• The Disrupter: Arvind Kejriwal and the Audacious Rise of the Aam Aadmi (Rupa, 2014)

• Five Decades of Decay (Rupa, 1997)