Shishir Gupta is a Senior Fellow at CSEP in New Delhi. His work focuses on many aspects of the Indian economy, including economic growth, governance and institutions, urbanisation, and sub-national reforms, among others. Before joining CSEP in August 2020, Shishir was a Fellow with the McKinsey Global Institute for 14 years, where he led multi-ethnic teams in India and the US on policy research and client studies across multiple domains. He has written widely on these topics in MGI reports and research papers as well as in popular media. He is an economist by education, with an MA and MPhil from the Delhi School of Economics.