Ruchir Agarwal is Co-Founder and President of the Global Talent Fund, Director of the Raj Center at SIPA, Columbia University, and M-RCBG Research Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School.
Previously, he spent over a decade at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), working across emerging markets, advanced economies, and global issues. He created and implemented the $50 billion IMF Pandemic Plan as the Head of the IMF Global Health & Pandemic Response Task Force.
He is an advisor to the IMF, World Bank, WHO, and UNDP, and is a Non-Resident Fellow at the Center for Global Development. He has also served as a Senior Advisor to the G20 Finance Health Task Force and as an Executive Fellow at the Yale School of Management. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University.