Shri Ram College of Commerce Ruchir Sharma is an Indian American author, fund manager and columnist for the Financial Times.

He did his undergraduate studies at the Shri Ram College of Commerce in New Delhi, and afterward joined a securities trading company, and in 1991 he launched a column called For Ex, first for The Observer, later for The Economic Times of India.

Sharma used his travels as the basis for many of his opinion columns, first published in The Economic Times, later in Newsweek International, The Wall Street Journal and other global media.

[11] A 2017 profile in the Financial Times described Sharma's style as a mix of stories picked up through his wanderings in bazaars and political rallies with "simple rubrics to explain distant economies… think Anthony Bourdain's inquisitiveness combined with Warren Buffett's folksiness."

"[13] In a 2012 piece for Foreign Affairs, "Broken BRICs," Sharma had argued that the broad boom that lifted up virtually all emerging economies in the 2000s was freakishly unusual, and unlikely to be repeated.

All these factors were helping to spur a US renaissance in manufacturing, putting the US in position to be the "breakout nation of the developed world,"[15] if it can address its Achilles heel: rising government debt.

Fundamental historic patterns were however pointing to a likely slowdown in China, including its aging population, its mounting debts, and its entry into the middle class of nations, which has always made it near impossible for countries to sustain a double digit growth rate.

Four years later, also in the NY Times ["How Technology Saved China’s Economy" Jan 20, 2020] Sharma pointed out that growth had in fact slowed sharply, from double digits to 6 percent (officially) and even slower by private estimates, weighed down as he had expected by demographics, debt, and economic maturity.

Sharma argued for some time that India's growth shows a clear pattern, rising and falling with the tides of the global economy, never getting ahead of the pack.

[27] In his 2019-book about India, Democracy on the Road,[29] Sharma chronicled his quarter century of travels through his homeland, putting in thousands of miles covering major state and national elections.

He writes that while he grew up hoping for a Ronald Reagan-type reformer, he has grown to accept that India's political DNA is fundamentally socialist and statist, and that this basic outlook defines the worldview of all the leading parties.

Born in Wellington in The Nilgiris District in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu,[36] Sharma was educated in Delhi, Bombay and Singapore and has lived in New York for nearly two decades.

In 2011, he ran in the 100-meter and 4 x 100 relay events, representing India at the World Masters, an international competition for athletes over the age of 35, in Sacramento, Calif.