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Dr. Omkar Goswami is the Founder and Chairperson of CERG Advisory Private Limited. CERG is the acronym for the Corporate and Economic Research Group. Its objectives are to use Indian as well as international resources to provide best in class:
Corporate advisory and consulting services for companies and industries in India and abroad.
Research and analytics on markets, industries and businesses.
Economic and policy analyses of different markets, regions, countries, industries, as well as trade, monetary, fiscal and exchange rate regimes.
Strategic profiling of countries, regions and international institutions for clients.
Research, surveys and analytical work for governments, companies, banks, investors, international multilateral institutions and NGOs.
International and national workshops, conferences and roundtables on focused policy areas.
A professional economist, Goswami did his Masters 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, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Rutgers University and the Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi.
In March 1997 he moved away from formal academics to become the Editor of Business India, one of the country's prestigious business magazines. From August 1998 up to March 2004, Goswami served as the Chief Economist of the Confederation of Indian Industry - the premier apex industry organization of India.
Goswami has served on several government committees. He was the Chairman of the Committee on Industrial Sickness and Corporate Restructuring 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; and others.
Goswami has been a consultant to the World Bank, the IMF, the Asian Development Bank and the OECD. He serves on the board of Dr. Reddy's Laboratories and Infosys Technologies - two of India's most prestigious knowledge-based companies. He also serves on the board of Infrastructure Development Finance Company, Crompton Greaves, SRF and DSP-Merrill Lynch Fund Managers.
Other than his regular columns for newspapers and magazines, Goswami has authored 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.
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