Career
Ahuluwalia, after graduating from University of Oxford, joined the World Bank during the tenures of Hollis Chenery and Robert MacNamara. At the age of 28, he became the youngest "Division Chief" in the World Bank's bureaucracy.
Prior to taking up his position at the IMF, Ahluwalia was a Member of the Planning Commission in New Delhi as well as a Member of the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister.
In spite of not being a member of the Indian Civil Service, he held the following positions of civil servants in the central government:
- Secretary, Ministry of Finance
- Secretary, Department of Economic Affairs
- Secretary, Ministry of Commerce
- Special Secretary to Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, and
- Economic Advisor to the Ministry of Finance.
In 2007 he became a member of the influential Washington-based financial advisory body, the Group of Thirty.
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