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{{short description|Indian economist and IMF mission chief to Ireland}}
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'''Ashoka Mody''' (born 14 January 1956)<ref name=Congress>{{cite web |title= Mody, Ashoka |url= http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n89642609.html |publisher= Library of Congress |accessdate= 20 November 2014 |quote= data sheet (b. 1/14/56) }}</ref> is an [[India]]n-born [[economist]]. He is the Charles and Marie Robertson [[visiting professor]] in international economic policy and lecturer in public and international affairs, [[Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs]], [[Princeton University|Princeton]].<ref name=Princeton>{{cite web|title=Profile: Ashoka Mody|url=http://wws.princeton.edu/faculty-research/faculty/amody|website=Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University|publisher=Princeton University|accessdate=20 November 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141202045731/http://wws.princeton.edu/faculty-research/faculty/amody|archive-date=2 December 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref>

== Education ==
Mody studied [[Electronics]] at the [[Indian Institute of Technology]] at [[Madras]]. After his B.Tech. (1978) he switched fields and obtained a M.Phil. in Applied [[Economics]] at the [[Centre for Development Studies]] in [[Trivandrum]] 1979, where he worked as a Research Associate until completing his [[PhD]] in Economics from [[Boston University]] in 1986.<ref name=CV>{{cite web|title=Biography: Ashoka Mody|url=http://scholar.princeton.edu/amody/biocv|website=Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University|publisher=Princeton University|accessdate=20 November 2014}}</ref>

== Career ==
He briefly joined [[AT&T Bell Laboratories]] as a member of their technical staff before joining the [[World Bank]] where he worked from 1987 to 2003. In 1997/1998, Mody was a visiting professor of [[public policy]] at the [[Wharton School]]. From 2001 until his retirement, Mody was the assistant director of the [[International Monetary Fund|International Monetary Fund's]] European Department. He is opposed to [[fiscal austerity]] as a means to resolve credit crises.<ref name=Irish_Times>{{cite news | last1= Newenham | first1= Pamela | last2 = Crosbie | first2 = Judith | title= IMF distances itself from Ashoka Mody comments on Ireland | url= http://www.irishtimes.com/business/sectors/financial-services/imf-distances-itself-from-ashoka-mody-comments-on-ireland-1.1471321 |accessdate= 20 November 2014| work= The Irish Times |date= 22 July 2013 }}</ref>

He was the chief IMF representative to Ireland during Ireland's [[European troika|troika]] bailout. Mody was critical of the troika for severity of the austerity regime enforced on Ireland. He was also critical of the Irish Government's lack of solidarity with other indebted EU nations and claimed that Irish Finance Minister [[Michael Noonan (Fine Gael politician)|Michael Noonan]] "blew it" by siding with the troika in 2015, when a debt reduction might have been reached.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/business/economy/noonan-dismisses-ashoka-mody-comments-on-debt-writedown-1.2105893|title=Noonan dismisses Ashoka Mody comments on debt writedown|newspaper=Irish Times|date=16 February 2015}}</ref> Mody noted in 2018 that Ireland's heavy exposure to U.S. multinationals for its business model would be a problem post the [[Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017]] reforms.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.ie/business/irish/warning-that-ireland-faces-huge-economic-threat-over-corporate-tax-reliance-troika-chief-36992083.html|title=Warning that Ireland faces huge economic threat over corporate tax reliance - Troika chief Mody says country won't be able to cope with changes to tax regime|newspaper=Irish Independent|date=9 June 2018}}</ref>

He is also affiliated with [[Bruegel (institution)|Bruegel]] in Brussels.<ref name=Guardian>{{cite news | title= Profile: Ashoka Mody | url= https://www.theguardian.com/profile/ashoka-mody | newspaper= The Guardian | accessdate= 20 November 2014 }}</ref>

== Attempt on Mody's life ==
In October 2009 as Mody returned to his home in Bethesda, Maryland when he was shot multiple times whilst in his car by a masked gunman who then fled on foot. Police issued an arrest warrant for Mohau Mercy Mathibe who worked for a trial period at the IMF under Mody.<ref name=Washington_Post>{{cite news | last1= Morse | first1= Dan | title= Man shot in garage identified as IMF economist | url= https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/09/AR2009100903701.html | accessdate= 20 November 2014 | work= Washington Post | date= 9 October 2010 }}</ref><ref name=WSJ>{{cite news | last1= Davis | first1= Bob | title= IMF worker sought in attack | url= https://www.wsj.com/news/articles/SB126263967129515255?mg=reno64-wsj&url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB126263967129515255.html | accessdate= 20 November 2014 | work= Wall Street Journal | date= 5 January 2010 }}</ref>

== Personal life ==
Mody is married with two children.<ref name=Washington_Post />

==Bibliography==
*{{cite book
| last = Ashoka
| first = Mody
| title = EuroTragedy: A Drama in Nine Acts
| publisher = OUP USA
| isbn = 978-0199351381
| year = 2018
}}
*{{cite book
| last = Ashoka
| first = Mody
| title = Foreign Direct Investment and the World Economy
| publisher = Routledge
| isbn = 978-0415654876
| year = 2014
}}

==See also==
*[[Post-2008 Irish banking crisis]]
*[[Ireland as a tax haven]]
*[[Economic Adjustment Programme for Ireland]]
*[[Post-2008 Irish economic downturn]]

== References ==
{{Reflist|30em}}

==External links==
*[http://www.amody.com/ Ashoka Mody webpage of publications]
*[https://scholar.princeton.edu/amody Ashoka Mody Princeton]

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