Venkatramanan Anantha Nageswaran (born in 1963) is an Indian economist who is serving as the 18th Chief Economic Advisor to the Government of India.

In 1983 Nageswaran graduated with BCom degree from American College, Madurai and in 1985 he obtained his Masters in Business Administration from Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad.

He later earned Doctor of Philosophy in finance from Isenberg School of Management at University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1994 for his research about 'Empirical behavior of Exchange Rates'[7] In his corporate career spanning seventeen years from 1994 to 2011, he was a Currency Economist at the Union Bank of Switzerland, Head of Research and Investment Consulting in Credit Suisse Private Banking in Asia, head of Asia Research and then global chief investment officer at Bank Julius Baer, Switzerland[8] He was the dean of the IFMR Graduate School of Business and a visiting professor of economics at Krea University.

[citation needed] He is the co founder of the Aavishkaar India Micro Venture Capital fund, a pioneer in impact investing, and the Takshashila Institute, a think tank for research and education in Public Policy.

[citation needed] On 28 January 2022, He was appointed as the Chief Economic Advisor of Government of India succeeding Krishnamurthy Subramanian, who completed his three-year term in December 2021.