Arvind Mayaram has a PhD in Finance and is currently an independent thinker, Vice Chairman, Rajasthan Economic Transformation Advisory Council and Economic Adviser to the Chief Minister of Rajasthan. He is also Chairman, CUTS Institute for Regulation & Competition. He has earlier held the positions of Finance Secretary and Secretary and Special Secretary in the Ministry of Rural Development in the Government of India. He has also been the Alternate Governor for India on the Boards of the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank and the African Development Bank. He was India's finance deputy in G20 and BRICS. He sat on the Boards of the Reserve Bank of India and the Securities Exchanges Board of India. He was India's chief negotiator for BRICS New Development Bank and Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), and co-chair of the Framework Working Group of G-20. He has been instrumental in several major initiatives in the area of investment, infrastructure development, Public Private Partnerships and institution building. He spearheaded the establishment of the framework for mainstreaming PPPs In India. He also designed the first PPP module for delivering infrastructure in the rural areas.