Dr. Amol Agrawal is an Associate Professor at National Institute of Securities Markets. He is a Ph.D. in Economics from Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore and also a fellow of the International Visitors Leadership Program. His Ph.D. Thesis on History of Banking in India's South Canara District (1906-69) was published as a monograph by Manipal Universal Press in 2023.

Before joining NISM, he has worked as a faculty member in Ahmedabad University. He has also taught at IIM Amritsar and Meghnad Desai Academy of Economics.

Apart from academic experience, Dr. Amol Agrawal   also has industrial experience of nearly a decade mainly working as an economist in Mumbai's financial sector.

He has been writing for leading media outlets for nearly two decades now: Financial Express, Mint, Business Standard, Money control etc. His blog named 'Mostly Economics' is ranked as one of the leading economics blogs in the world The blog is archived at Library of Congress, US.

Dr. Amol Agrawal   has deep interests in macroeconomics, financial markets, and history of all kinds