Born in 1940, Asuri Vasudevan (A. Vasudevan) is an economist by training. He has spent more than 50 years in academic institutions and official organizations. His fields of specialization are central banking and international finance. In 2000, he retired from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) as Executive Director. Between 2006 and 2012, he served as the Monetary Operations Advisor on assignment through the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for the first three years; subsequently, he functioned as Special Adviser to the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). He was associated with the Executive Board of the IMF (1984-89) as Advisor to the Executive Director for India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Bhutan. As Advisor at the IMF, Washington DC, and later as a senior official of RBI, he participated in a number of meetings and conferences of the IMF and World Bank, Group of Twenty Four, Group of Twenty and UNDP. He has authored several books on Economics, the latest being, 'Monetary Governance' published by Academic Foundation, New Delhi in 2012. His debut novel, 'The Cloudburst' (originally titled 'Govind Lahari') appeared in 2011. The current book, 'Banana and the Peepul Leaf' is a stand-alone work. It has however used many of the characters found in 'The Cloudburst'. He lives in Mumbai.
