Nand Kishore Singh is an Indian politician, economist and former Indian Administrative Service officer. He is a senior member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) since March 2014 after having served as a Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha (2008-2014) from Bihar for the Janata Dal (United). He has been a senior bureaucrat, Member of the Planning Commission and handled assignments of Union Expenditure and Revenue Secretary. He was also Officer on Special Duty to Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. On 27 November 2017, Modi government appointed him as the chairman of Fifteenth Finance Commission of India. He is currently on the board of Hindustan Times, ICRIER, IMI, Nalanda University as well as connected with the Stanford University and the India Advisory Committee of London School of Economics and Columbia University. He is the former chairman, board of governors of Management Development Institute (MDI), Gurgaon. He is currently the chairman of the review committee set up under Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management Act, 2003, under the purview of Ministry of Finance, Government of India. He is believed to be one of the people involved in the IC-814 response of the Indian government. Early life and Career Born in Kolkata on 27 January 1941, Singh did his schooling at St. Xavier's High School, Patna and completed his Senior Cambridge Examination at St. Xavier's College, Patna before he joined St Stephens College, Delhi for pursuing graduation. He did Masters in Economics from the Delhi School of Economics. Following that, he has held the following positions: Member, State Secretariat, Finance Department (1968–69) Under Secretary, Ministry of Commerce (1969–73) Special Assistant to Commerce Minister (1973–77) Represented India at GATT, UNACTD, UN and the Common Wealth Secretariat. Chairman, Bihar State Electricity Board Special Assistant to the former President Pranab Mukherjee, then former Minister of Commerce, Steel and Mines (1980–81) First Minister, Economic and Commercial, Indian Embassy, Japan (1981–85) Additional Finance Commissioner, Principal Secretary Industries and Industrial Development Commissioner, Bihar (1986–90) Joint Secretary Police (Ministry of Home Affairs) (1990–91) Joint Secretary, Department of Economic Affairs (Ministry of Finance) (1991–93) First Chairman UNGEF (United Nations Global Environment Facility) (1993–94) Secretary, Department of Economic Affairs (1993–95) Secretary, Department of Expenditure (1995–96) Revenue Secretary (1996–98) Secretary to former PM AB Vajpayee (1998-2001) Member Planning Commission (2001–06) Deputy Chairman, Bihar State Planning Board (2006–08) Member of Parliament to the Rajya Sabha (2008–14) President of Institute of Economic Growth (IEG)