Biography

Ruchir Agarwal is an M-RCBG Research Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School and the Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Global Talent Network. He worked at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for over a decade before that. He has also been a Senior Advisor to the G20 Finance Health Task Force and an Executive Fellow at the Yale School of Management. During the pandemic, he created and implemented the $50 billion IMF Pandemic Plan as the Head of the IMF Global Health & Pandemic Response Task Force. His expertise spans advanced economies and emerging markets, and he holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University.