♦ Economist and Chairman of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's economic advisory council Bibek Debroy (69) died on 1 November 2024. He was appointed Chairman of PM-EAC on September 25, 2017, 
♦ He was earlier served as the chancellor of the Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics (GIPE) in Pune. Debroy was also a Member of NITI Aayog up to June 5, 2019.
♦ Debroy was awarded a Padma Shri in 2015 and the Lifetime Achievement Award by the US-India Business Summit in 2016.