Bhanu Pratap

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I am a PhD Researcher in Economics at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, Italy. My research interests lie at the intersection of macroeconomics, monetary policy and empirical methods, with a particular focus on macroeconomic uncertainty, monetary policy, inflation dynamics, time-series forecasting, and the application of big data and machine learning to central banking.  

I am currently on leave from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), where I worked as a Senior Economist (Assistant General Manager) in the Research Department from 2017 to 2025. In this role, I provided analytical assessments of the global economic outlook and associated risks to the Bank’s leadership. I also conducted policy-oriented research on international issues of strategic relevance to the RBI’s mission. 

I hold a Master’s degree in Economics from the Madras School of Economics, Chennai, and an Bachelor's degree in Economics from Shri Ram College of Commerce, University of Delhi. Previously, I worked at Fidelity Investments and served as a Research Assistant to the late Professor TN Srinivasan, Emeritus Professor at Yale University.