Dr. Manoranjan Sharma, Chief Economist, Infomerics Ratings, Delhi has a brilliant academic record. He was the Chief Economist of Canara Bank for 17 years, General Manager for 6 years, and Chief Learning Officer for 5 years. Widely traveled both in India and abroad, he is globally recognized as an expert in the Indian economy, banking, MSMEs, rural credit, financial inclusion, etc.
He has been recognized as an expert by the UN Virtual University (UNVU) for SDG. UNVU advances human dignity and protect the planet through their work on transformative issues critical to humanity’s shared future.
He made a presentation as an invited Speaker at an International Conference held in Marrakech, Morocco in October 2022. He was the only invited Speaker from India and the other Speakers were from Canada, France, Poland, Kuwait, Morocco, etc.
He has made presentations and Chaired sessions at national and international conferences. His papers have repeatedly been globally accepted, viz., Global Finance Conference-Las Vegas, USA (April 2004); Emerging Issues in Business and Technology-Western Illinois University, USA (Oct. 2004); Applied Business Research Conference, Florida USA (Jan. 2005); International Symposium Economy & Business, Bulgaria (Sept. 2005); International Business Research Conference- Puerto Vallarta, Mexico (March 2005); Global Business and Economic Research Conference-Istanbul, Turkey (Aug. 2005); International Conference on Globalization, Technology and Sustainable Development-Abu Dhabi, UAE (Nov. 2005); Max Planck Indian Institute of Science (IISc) International Conference on Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Economic Growth-Bangalore (Oct. 2007).
He has been nominated a member of over a dozen Advisory Councils in seven States, viz., Member, Governor’s Advisory Council, Rajasthan; Chancellor’s Nominee on Senate, Rajasthan University, Jaipur; Chancellor’s Nominee on Board of Management, Kota University; Expert Member, Bankers’ Institute of Rural Development, Lucknow; Expert Member, AIMA, Delhi; Vice Chairman, Indian Society for Training & Development (ISTD), Gurgaon; former Chairman, Editorial Committee of IBA’s flagship journal The Indian Banker, Mumbai, etc.
He is associated with banks, Universities, leading institutions, viz., Terrapinn Pte Ltd. (Singapore); Marcus Evans (Malaysia); Naseba (Paris/Dubai); Government of India and State Governments, IICA of Corporate Affairs Ministry, NIEPA of Education Ministry, NIDM of Home Ministry, RBI, IIMs, IITs, IGIDR, Mumbai, NIRD, Hyderabad, etc. He has been on a large number of Selection Panels of Canara Bank, Bank of India, Union Bank of India, and Tamilnad Mercantile Bank (TMB); Expert Evaluator for the prestigious BML Munjal Award (Hero Honda Group) and JS Juneja Award (AIMA), Expert by the Indian Banking Personnel Selection (IBPS), Mumbai.
His papers and books, viz., Global Financial Meltdown; Leading Issues in Indian Economy; Studies in Money, Finance and Banking; India’s Transforming Financial Sector; Dynamics of Indian Banking; and Indian Economic Policies and Data figure in Libraries of almost all top Universities of the world, viz., Oxford, Cambridge, Edinburgh, London School of Economics, Library of Congress, Washington; Harvard, Princeton, Yale, etc.
He has over 300 publications, including in The Business Review (Cambridge, US), Journal of Economy and Business (Bulgaria), Occasional Papers (RBI, Mumbai), The Indian Banker (IBA, Mumbai), Bank Quest (IIBF, Mumbai), CAB Calling (RBI, Pune), The Eastern Anthropologist (Lucknow), Lucknow Management Association Convention Journal (IIM, Lucknow), Professional Banker (ICFAI, Hyderabad), Analyst (ICFAI, Hyderabad), Yojana (Information and Broadcasting Ministry), Property World (global London-based UBM group, Mumbai), The Economic Times, Financial Express, Times of India, Hindu Business Line.
He received several distinctions, awards, honors including the IDSAsr Research Award for outstanding research in the area of economic development, particularly sustainable development by the Guru Arjan Dev Institute of Development Studies, Amritsar for the year 2021 and the IIF CSR Award 2021 by the Indian Institute of Finance, Delhi for “a deep and abiding interest in a broad-basing of the process and pattern of the development process and the needs of the poor, deprived and marginalized sections of society” and “driven by the objective of giving back to the society”.
His views have been repeatedly cited in The Associated Press (New York), Dow Jones (New York), International Herald-Tribune (New York), Wall Street Journal (New York).
