Economist Dr Rajiv Kumar as on Friday night named as the new Vice Chairman of NITI Aayog, five days after the incumbent Arvind Panagariya announced that he would quit to return to academics.
The Government also appointed Dr Vinod Paul, a pediatrician at the AIIMS, as a member of the NITI Aayog, an official spokesman said. Kumar, who holds a DPhil in economics from Oxford and a PhD from lucknow University, is a senior fellow at the Centre for Policy Research (CPR).
Earlier, he was Secretary General of the FICCI and had also served as Director and Chief Executive of the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER).