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{{Short description|Indian economist}}
{{for|other people with same name|Ashok Desai (disambiguation)}}
{{BLP sources|date=February 2013}}
{{Infobox economist
|name = Ashok V. Desai
|image = Desai ashok.jpg
|caption = Ashok Desai
|birth_date = 1936
|workplaces = [[Stanford University]] [[University of Oxford]] [[Delhi School of Economics]] [[University of South Pacific]] [[University of Sussex]]
|birth_place = [[India]]
|alma_mater = ([[BCom]]) [[Sydenham College of Commerce and Economics]] [[University of Mumbai]] 
([[Bachelor of Arts|B.A.]] Economics) [[King's College, Cambridge]] ([[PhD]]Economics) [[University of Cambridge]]
| doctoral_advisor = [[Phyllis Deane]]
| thesis_title =Real Wages in Germany 1871–1913
| thesis_url = https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-economic-history/article/abs/real-wages-in-germany-18711913-by-ashok-v-desai-oxford-the-clarendon-press-1968-pp-xiv-184-880/C61E356ABFF483679A937C565F960A8C
| citizenship = [[Indian people|Indian]]
|death_date =
|death_place =
|occupation = [[Professor]] [[Economist]]
}}

'''Ashok V. Desai''',<ref>{{Cite web |title= Ashok V Desai |url= https://muckrack.com/ashok-v-desai|access-date= 8 January 2026|website= Muck Rack |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title= Ashok V. Desai|url=https://theorg.com/org/asa-in/org-chart/ashok-v-desai |access-date= 8 January 2026|website= The Org|language=en}}</ref> (born 1936), is an [[Indian people|Indian]] [[economist]]. He has served as Chief Consultant in the [[Ministry of Finance (India)|Ministry of Finance]] from 1991 to 1993, and helped overcome [[India]] from [[economic crisis]] and design the early reforms.
His inputs in the reform of taxation, trade policy and financial market regulation were particularly notable. In recent years Desai has carried out major studies of the Indian information technology and telecommunications industries. In the 1980s, Desai coordinated a large survey of research on energy and environment for [[International Development Research Centre]] in [[Ottawa]].<ref>{{Cite web|title= Ashok Desai profile|url= https://theorg.com/org/asa-in/org-chart/ashok-v-desai|access-date= 8 January 2026|website= The Org|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title= Ashok Desai Independent Researcher|url=https://independent.academia.edu/AshokDesai11 |access-date= 8 January 2026|website= Academia .edu|language=en}}</ref>

==Education and Career==
He graduated from [[Sydenham College]], [[Bombay University]], with a BCom, proceeded to [[King's College, Cambridge]] for a BA in Economics where [[Nicholas Kaldor]] was his supervisor; his student contemporaries included [[Jagdish Bhagwati]] and [[Manmohan Singh]].

He received the PhD in Economics of [[Cambridge University]] in 1963 for a thesis on German economic growth before [[World War I]], titled "Real Wages in Germany 1871–1913", done under supervision of [[Phyllis Deane]].

He has been a noted economic journalist and private business consultant in India, and was also Chief Consultant in the Indian Ministry of Finance in 1991–1993 under Manmohan Singh's ministership.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.financialexpress.com/news/column-good-advisor-but-whos-listening/519391/0|title=Column : Good advisor, but who's listening?|date=21 September 2009 |publisher=The Financial Express|accessdate=17 February 2013}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20160304222442/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1080311/jsp/opinion/story_8992089.jsp ]

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