Dr. Aruna Sharma is a Practitioner Development Economist and Policy Advisor. She was Secretary, Ministry of Electronics and IT and also worked as Secretary Steel in Govt. of India. She was instrumental in bringing the Steel Policy 2017 and changes ifn GFR and preference to Make in India to enhance domestic consumption of steel. She was a member of the Reserve Bank of India's High-level Committee on Deepening the digital payments in India. She works in the field of Digital Transformation, e-Governance, FinTech, Digital Assets as well as core sectors like Steel and Mining laws. She has developed and successfully led the panchayat level governance model. Presently, Dr. Sharma is on the Board of Directors for some companies and writes regularly on Economy, Digital and Social Innovation, and Rural Development. As an author, she has 5 bestselling books to her credit. The latest book is Dancing Towards The $5 Trillion Economy on a Holistic Beat (Indra Publishing House).