Noted economist Rajiv Kumar will be the next Vice-Chairman of NITI Aayog, which is a think-tank that replaced the Planning Commission.

He will succeed Arvind Panagariya, who had recently quit as Vice Chairman of Niti Aayog.

Meanwhile, the Centre has also appointed Vinod Paul, a Paediatrician at AIIMS, as a member of NITI Aayog.

Rajiv Kumar is currently a senior fellow at the Centre for Policy Research, a non-governmental think tank on public policy based out of New Delhi.

He had also been part of a Government appointed high-level search Panel that went into the appointment of regulators in the Indian financial sector.

Kumar, who holds a DPhil in economics from Oxford and a PhD from Lucknow University, had served as Director & Chief Executive of the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER).

Srivats.kr@thehindu.co.in