Sanjeev Sanyal is Founder & President of the Sustainable Planet Institute and was named "Young Global Leader 2010" by the World Economic Forum. He has several other attachments including Honorary Senior Fellow of WWF, Member of the Steering Committee of Urban Age at London School of Economics, Board of Governors of the Sushant School of Architecture as well as Action for Food Programme, and Director & Co-Founder of Green Indian States Trust. He was awarded the Eisenhower Fellowship in 2007 for his work on urban systems. Sanjeev Sanyal is also one of Asia’s leading financial economists and was Deutsche Bank's Chief Economist for region till 2008. He has been a Visiting Fellow of Oxford University and an Adjunct Fellow of the Lee Kuan Yew Institute of Public Policy, National University of Singapore. He attended Shri Ram College of Commerce, Delhi and then Oxford University where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He is the author of The Indian Renaissance: India's Rise After a Thousand Years of Decline published by Penguin in 2008. He writes for several publications including a regular column in Business Standard. Disclaimer: External experts are not affiliated with Gateway House and have been presented here for reference only.