Anirvan Banerji is the co-founder of the Economic Cycle Research Institute (ECRI). Additionally, he is the editor-in-chief of ECRI’s forecasting publications and is the co-author of Beating the Business Cycle: How to Predict and Profit from Turning Points in the Economy. Banerji has been an invited speaker at events ranging from the Eurostat colloquium on modern tools for business cycle analysis to the Grant’s Interest Rate Observer conference.

Banerji worked closely with Geoffrey H. Moore since 1986 at Columbia University's Center for International Business Cycle Research and co-founded ECRI with Moore and Achuthan in 1996. Banerji currently serves on the New York City Economic Advisory Panel and is also a past President of the Forecasters Club of New York. He has an engineering degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur and graduate degrees from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad and Columbia University.