He served at the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, the Department of Economic Affairs, the National Council of Applied Economic Research, the Rajiv Gandhi Institute for Contemporary Studies, and NITI Aayog.

Speaking at the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation's data user conference on the HCE Survey , Bibek Debroy, chairman of the EAC to the PM noted that the Multidimensional Poverty Index does not precisely define a poverty line.