Arun Kumar

"Arun Kumar taught economics at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, till 2015. He has a master's degree in physics from Delhi University and Princeton University, USA, and a doctorate in economics from JNU. His areas of special interest are public finance and public policy, and macroeconomics and economic development.

He has coordinated the work of producing Alternative Budgets for 1993-94 and 1994-95 and demonstrated that alternative policies are feasible based on the nation's own resources. Earlier he was at the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy and worked on the report titled Aspects of the Black Economy in India.

He has been interviewed and quoted widely in newspapers and magazines on the subject of demonetization, and has written extensively on the black economy over thirty-five years."