Praveen Chakravarty is a politician and a public intellectual, formerly a think tank scholar, angel investor and a banker. 

After an engineering degree from BITS Pilani, Praveen Chakravarty worked with IBM and Microsoft. Later he got an MBA from Wharton and worked on Wall Street. 

A desire for public service led Chakravarty to join the Dr. Manmohan Singh government in 2009, first with the Unique Identity program and then with the Prime Minister’s Skills Mission.  

After the 2014 elections, he became a scholar in political economy in a think-tank, IDFC Institute where he published papers in peer-reviewed journals, articles in leading Indian and international publications. 

In 2017, Chakravarty became a full time politician when was invited to formally join the Congress party by then President, Rahul Gandhi. 

He currently chairs two departments of the party – the Professionals’ wing and Data Analytics. 

He is a key member of the Congress’ economic think tank and helped draft the party’s manifestos for the 2024 and 2019 national elections. 

Chakravarty is working on two books, one on Economic Justice and other on India’s Federalism. He is a prolific op-ed writer, an active tennis and cricket player, a South Indian classical music aficionado, an enthusiastic cook.