Anirvan Banerji

Banerji is director of research for the Manhattan-based Economic Cycle Research Institute, the foremost institute of research into leading indicators of the economy. At the Center for International Business Cycle Research at Columbia University, he worked closely with Dr. Geoffrey Moore for 10 years. While at CIBCR, he was in charge of the Business Week Leading Index, as well as the Journal of Commerce Industrial Materials Price Index.

His publications include a chapter (co-authored with Charlotte Boschan) titled "A Reassessment of Composite Indexes" in Analyzing Modern Business Cycles (M.E. Sharpe, 1990); and an article (co-authored with Geoffrey Moore and Ernst Boehm) titled "Using Economic Indicators to Reduce Risk in Stock Market Investments," in International Journal of Forecasting (November 1994). He serves on the Economic Advisory Panel of the New York City Office of Management and Budget, and is a member of the OECD Expert Group on Leading Indicators.

Banerji received a graduate degree in business from Columbia University in 1985, after getting a master's degree in business administration from the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad in 1979 and an engineering degree from the Indian Institute of Technology in Kharagpur in 1977.