Sanjeev S Ahluwalia is a retired IAS officer, and currently an advisor at the Observer Research Foundation (ORF) in New Delhi. He has earlier served the government of Uttar Pradesh in various capacities at the district and state level. He worked at the Tata Energy Research Institute (Teri) as a senior fellow from 1995 to 1998. His last job was as Secretary of Finance (expenditure management) with the UP government from 2001 to 2002. He has a Masters in Economic Policy Management from Columbia University, New York, a post graduate diploma in Financial Management from Delhi University, and a Masters in History from St Stephen's College, Delhi.