Poonam Gupta is a lead economist for India at the World Bank. She joined the World Bank in 2013 in the chief economist office. Prior to joining the Bank, she was the Reserve Bank of India chair professor at The National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, a professor of macroeconomics at Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, associate professor at the Delhi School of Economics and an economist at the International Monetary Fund, Washington DC, where she served in the Asia and Pacific Department, European Department, and the Research Department.