About us

Dr. Ajit Ranade is an Independent Director of CCIL since November 2022. 

He is a noted Economist and is presently the Vice Chancellor at Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics (“GIPE”). Prior to his joining GIPE, he was the Group Executive President and Chief Economist with the Aditya Birla Group. His over thirty years career has spanned academic, research and corporate assignments. Prior to the Aditya Birla Group, he was Chief Economist and Head of Microfinance Business at ABN Amro Bank. He has been a faculty member at the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, a deemed University funded by the Reserve Bank of India. He has also taught in the U.S.A. at Brown University, Holy Cross College, Wesleyan University, and at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi. He has also been Professor at Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER), New Delhi. 

He holds a M.A. and Ph.D. (Economics) from Brown University, USA, B.Tech in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay and MBA from Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.