Laksham Achuthan

Lakshman Achuthan is co-founder and Chief Operations Officer of ECRI, the Economic Cycle Research Institute, based in New York City. He is also the Managing Editor of its publications on business forecasting, and he is a frequent guest expert on several broadcast networks, including CNBC, Bloomberg Television, and Fox Business. Lakshman Achuthan is co-author of the book Beating the Business Cycle: How to Predict and Profit from Turning Points in the Economy, published in 2004 by Crown Business. Dr. Achuthan worked closely with renowned economist Geoffrey H. Moore in the Center for International Business Cycle Research at New York's Columbia University, and he and colleague Anirvan Banerji assisted Moore in founding ECRI in 1996.

Lakshman Achuthan received his Bachelor's degree with a concentration in International Business from New Jersey's Fairleigh Dickinson University in 1989. Two years later, he earned a Master's degree in Business Administration from Long Island University's Department of Economics in Brookville, New York. Subsequently, he accepted LIU's Distinguished Alumni Award.

Lakshman Achuthan has served as a member of the Economic Advisory Panel for the New York City Office of Management and Budget for more than a decade. Dr. Achuthan is also part of Time magazine's panel of economic advisors, as well as a member of the Board of Governors for the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.

Dr. Achuthan serves as a board trustee for the Atlantic Foundation and a trustee of The Putney School in Vermont, where he is an alumnus. He is a member of the advisory board for Wroxton College in Oxfordshire, England, the British affiliate campus of Fairleigh Dickinson University.