Dr Naveen Bali has over 15 years of experience in policy research, economic analysis, and academia, with expertise spanning macroeconomics, climate economics, public policy, and institutional reform. He has worked across government, academia, and leading think tanks, contributing to policy research, economic analysis, and advisory assignments on a range of public policy issues.

Dr Bali previously worked at the Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW), where he established India’s Carbon Pricing Forum and led panel-data research on the implications of carbon pricing for Indian industry. He has also served with the Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance, as Consultant to the Principal Economic Adviser, where he contributed to the Economic Survey of India. At the Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs (IICA), Ministry of Corporate Affairs, he headed the Department of Sustainability Excellence and is currently serving as Visiting Faculty for courses in insolvency, competition law, valuation, economics, and related areas.

He holds a PhD in Economics from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. He has contributed to more than six chapters across the 2018–19, 2020–21, and 2021–22 editions of the Economic Survey of India. He was an Additional Member of the Natural Capital Accounting and Valuation of Ecosystem Services (NCAVES) Committee constituted under the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation. He also co-authored the government working paper Agroforestry: Missing Trees for the Forest (2024), with Sanjeev Sanyal and Karan Shinghal.

His research has been published in peer-reviewed journals, including the Journal of Cleaner Production, where he co-authored “Sustainable performance-oriented production practices in the Indian iron and steel industry”. He has also contributed chapters on insolvency and related economic and institutional issues to edited volumes, including Breaking New Ground: IBC’s Role in Building a Resilient Economy (2025) and Insolvency & Bankruptcy Laws: National & International Perspectives (Thomson Reuters, 2022).