What is Montek Singh Ahluwalia?
{{Infobox Officeholder | name = Montek Singh Ahluwalia | image = Montekahuwalia.jpg | image_size = 200px | caption = |office = Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission |primeminister = [[Narendra Modi]] |term_start = 6 July 2004 |term_end = 26 may 2014 |predecessor = [[K.C. Pant]] |successor = | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1943|11|24}} | birth_place = [[New Delhi]] [[British India]] | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = [[Economist]]<br>[[Civil service|Civil servant]] | spouse = [[Isher Judge Ahluwalia]] | alma_mater = [[University of Delhi]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|B.A.]])<br>[[Magdalen College, Oxford]] <br>([[Master of Arts (postgraduate)|M.A.]]) & St. Antony's College, Oxford (M.Phil.) }} '''Montek Singh Ahluwalia''' (born 24 November 1943) is an Indian [[economist]] and civil servant. He was the Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission of the [[Republic of India]]. The position has the rank of a Cabinet Minister. He resigned from the post in 2014. This was before the end of the UPA II [[wikt:regime|regime]] in the center.<ref>{{cite web|title=Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia Resigns|url=http://profit.ndtv.com/news/economy/article-planning-commission-deputy-chairman-montek-singh-ahluwalia-resigns-388647|publisher=NDTV|accessdate=21 May 2014}}</ref> Before this, he was the first Director of the Independent Evaluation Office at the [[International Monetary Fund]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Planning Commission|url=http://planningcommission.gov.in/aboutus/history/index.php?about=msaprobody.htm|publisher=Government of India|accessdate=1 July 2013|archive-date=25 July 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130725102700/http://planningcommission.gov.in/aboutus/history/index.php?about=msaprobody.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{bio-stub}} [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:1943 births]] [[Category:Indian economists]] [[Category:Civil servants]]