Imon Ghosh

Imon Ghosh is Founder of the Inclusive Growth and Financial Stability Forum™, the Sustainable Economy Association (SEA)™ and the Sustainable Economy Leaders Forum (SELF)™, and is a NHRDN National Professor. He has a long standing interest in reducing poverty to accelerate economic growth.

Imon is a management professional with over 20 years of experience in the corporate sector and academia, including heading the Learning and Development function in India for a Fortune 100 MNC, teaching Economics and related subjects at Management Schools and a Law University, and serving as Director of the Academy of HRD, India’s premier institution specializing in human resources development for all organizational forms.

Imon is a Life Member of the All India Management Association and the Indian Economic Association (among others) and was an Individual Member of Gateway House: Indian Council on Global Relations. He has served as a National Board Member of India’s National HRD Network, as Chairman of the Board of Studies for Management and Finance at the Nirma University Institute of Law, and as a Visiting Faculty at the Indian Institute of Management, Ranchi, where he designed and taught a course on Training and Development.

Imon has designed and delivered corporate training and faculty development programs related to Leadership Development etc. to several thousand participants of many different nationalities in five countries and four continents for around two decades, with excellent participant feedback (available on request).

Besides inflation, Imon has been thinking, writing and speaking about reducing poverty to accelerate economic growth. It is the subject of his second book under the Imon’s Imprints Public Policy Advocacy Series. In 2001, his book on Reducing Poverty was abridged and published on the Editorial page of The Times of India, and included in the records of the Indian Parliament. It was also included in the syllabus of the National University of Juridical Sciences by its founding Vice Chancellor, Dr. Madhava Menon.

Imon has also contributed a chapter on ‘India’s Sustainable Economic Growth: Challenges and Prospects’ in the USI Strategic Yearbook 2017 which was released by the late General Bipin Rawat (who was Chief of Army Staff at the time) on 4th May 2017 in New Delhi. The United Service Institution of India (USI) is Asia’s oldest think tank, established in 1870.