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Goyal succeeds Poonam Gupta, who led the organization from July 2021 to April 2025.
Suresh Goyal will take over as Director General of economic think-tank National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER) on January 5, 2026. Goyal succeeds Poonam Gupta, who led the organization from July 2021 to April 2025.
He has over 30 years of experience in the private and public sectors. Goyal joins NCAER after his assignment as Managing Director and CEO of National Highway Infra Trust (NHIT), which was set up by the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways and the National Highway Authority of India to support the National Monetization Pipeline.
India’s largest and oldest economic think tank, NCAER was established in 1956 on a public-private partnership by the then Commerce Minister TT Krishnamachari and JRD Tata.