Sanjeev S. Ahluwalia | Governance, Energy & Economic Policy Expert | CRF India
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Distinguished Fellow

Sanjeev S. Ahluwalia

Sanjeev S. Ahluwalia is a Distinguished Fellow at CRF. He has core skills in institutional analysis, energy and economic regulation and public financial management backed by eight years of project management experience (2005 to 2013) in governance and policy support with the Poverty Reduction and Economic Management (PREM) practice of the World Bank in Africa. Subsequently, he worked as a consultant for World Bank governance projects in India and most recently in electricity reform in Myanmar and Energy Transition in India.

He was the founder Secretary of the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission, Government of India, in 1999. During three years of consultancy with TERI he provided technical assistance to the newly corporatized utility GRIDCO to submit its first Tariff Application to the Orissa Electricity Regulatory Commission under the World Bank and DFID assisted Orissa Electricity Reform Project.

In the Government of India, he was in the Ministry of Disinvestment, Department of Economic Affairs and in the Ministry of Commerce. He has ten years of experience in industrial and rural development, district, and municipal administration, and was Secretary, Finance in the Government of Uttar Pradesh, which was his home cadre in the Indian Administrative Service.

He has a master’s in Economic Policy Management from Columbia University, New York; a post graduate diploma in financial management from the Faculty of Management Studies, Delhi University, and a master’s in history from St. Stephens College, Delhi.

He hosts a Blog - https://ahlu-india.com/

Featured Publications

Only Profitable Wars Are Those Fought ‘Offshore’

14 May, 2025 9 min  | Sanjeev S Ahluwalia

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Unboxing Trump’s Tariff Rationale: Fortress America seeks solace in the Past

17 April, 2025 1 min  | Sanjeev S Ahluwalia

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America Shackles Itself With a Global Trade War

12 April, 2025 8 min  | Sanjeev S Ahluwalia

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India vs Volkswagen: 'Tax Terror', Corporate Greed, or Systemic Failure?

25 March, 2025 1 min  | Sanjeev S Ahluwalia

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Buy jets, make friends : India can gain from Trump’s politics of disruptions

02 March, 2025 1 min  | Sanjeev S Ahluwalia

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Trump’s Reciprocal Tariffs Cast Shadow Over PM Modi’s Washington Visit

13 February, 2025 1 min  | Sanjeev S Ahluwalia

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