Suman K. Bery is Director General of the National Council of Applied Economic Research, New Delhi, since January 2001.
Prior to this assignment, he was at the World Bank as the Lead Economist for Brazil, and also Division Chief at the former Economic Development Institute (now the World Bank Institute) with an active programme in China; Secretary to the Bank's Research Committee. He has done work on Latin America, specifically on Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, Ecuador and Peru, and country work on Iran, Yugoslavia, Tanzania and Jamaica. Between 1992 and 1994 he held the position of Special Consultant to the Governor of the Reserve Bank of India. His publications include papers on Indian financial sector reforms; reforms of public sector banks; banking crises in Latin America and the political economy of economic reforms in developing countries.