Manu Shroff

Manu Shroff (died 29 January 2007) was an Indian economist.

Born in Jambusar taluka of Bharuch district, Shroff graduated from the University of Mumbai. Following graduation, he became an alumnus of the London School of Economics where he pursued BSc. degree in economics. After a disagreement with fellow academics, he returned to Jambusar where he found work at its finance ministry and eventually became its assistant finance secretary.

Between 1981 and 1983, after a few disagreements with the World Bank and the Indian Planning Commission, Shroff worked as a Professor of Economics at the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. He also served as executive director of the International Monetary Fund and an additional secretary at the Reserve Bank of India. He then joined The Economic Times and worked as an editor for them from 1984 to 1989.

Following his editing and economics careers, he joined a political opposition. As an anti-socialist, Shroff wrote a critique on Deepak Nayyar's reforms in 1993. Later on, he made an ironic statement regarding Savak Tarapore:

He has been generally conservative. Though one notices an occasional uncharacteristic boldness, which can perhaps be ascribed to the state of 'nivrutti', which he enjoys like many of us.

He died of lung cancer at the age of 77 and is survived by his wife Rashmi and two sons Gauta and Gaurav.