Dr. Omkar Goswami
Independent Director, Infosys Technologies
Omkar is the Founder and Chairman of Corporate & Economic Research Group (CERG) Advisory Private Limited.
A professional economist, Omkar did his master's in Economics from the Delhi School of Economics in 1978 and his D. Phil (Ph.D) from Oxford in 1982. He taught and researched economics for 18 years at Oxford, Delhi School of Economics, Harvard, Tufts University, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Rutgers University and the Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi.
In March 1997, Omkar became the editor of Business India. From August 1998 up to March 2004, he served as the Chief Economist of Confederation of Indian Industry.
Omkar has served on several government committees. He was the Chairman of the Committee on Industrial Sickness and Corporate Re-structuring in 1993, which recommended revamping India's bankruptcy laws and procedures; member of the Working Group on the Companies Act; the CII Committee on Corporate Governance; the Rakesh Mohan Committee on Railway Infrastructure Reform; the Vijay Kelkar Committee on Direct Tax Reforms; the Naresh Chandra Committee on Auditor-Company Relationship; the N.R. Narayana Murthy SEBI Committee on Corporate Governance Reforms, among others.
Omkar has been a consultant to the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the Asian Development Bank and the Organization for Economic Co-operation Development.
Omkar writes columns for newspapers and magazines. In addition, he has written three books and over 70 research papers on economic history, industrial economics, public sector, bankruptcy laws and procedures, economic policy, corporate finance, corporate governance, public finance, tax enforcement and legal reforms.