Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa
Chandra Tamirisa is a Global Sustainability Consultant, Entrepreneur, and Government Relations professional, and the Owner, Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Transformations LLC, Common Era LLC and Samskruti, Washington, D.C-based global consulting, entrepreneurhsip and government relations firms specializing in advising stakeholders in the political, economic, business and engineering aspects of sustainable global development and integration. He is a skilled adviser on policy, strategy and engineering. His unique interdisciplinary expertise in politics, economics, management and engineering draws on his diverse and advanced educational background and experience in both the private and public sectors to enable him to provide thorough, comprehensive and independent strategic issue analyses and creative policy solutions to policy problems faced by government and business leaders in foreign policy, national security policy, macroeconomic policy and regulatory policy.
Monthly Archives: April 2010
The Emerging Political Calendar
By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa Sometimes, especially political leaders habituated to winning, must take losses as blessings in disguise without griping too much about dissent. President Obama, in spite of being a self-proclaimed black man on the 2010 census … Continue reading
“The Guts To Govern”
By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa “Instead of fearing what may happen, let’s prove that we have more than just the brains to govern — that we have the guts to govern.” David Plouffe The Washington Post, Sunday, January 24, … Continue reading
At Last, Recognizing The Budget Constraint
By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa (This article was submitted to The Washington Post as an Op-Ed on 01/26/2010, on the eve of the President’s State of the Union and on India’s Republic Day, India being my country of emigration … Continue reading
CC: Credit Card Reform
By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa (This article was submitted to The Washington Post as an Op-Ed on 01/24/2010. As a possible case of illegal government harassment of me, my wireless AT&T telephone bill exceeded $3000 during the billing period … Continue reading
Politics And Policy
By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa The relationship between politics and policy can be confounding to those who have to face the consequences of both in a democracy. Policies are about solutions to the problems being faced by a society, … Continue reading
Is Shanghai Ranking Short Changing The Emerging Countries?
By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa The Shanghai Ranking consultancy has published its prestigious ranking of the world’s top universities. And none of the top ten is Chinese. 8 are American and 2 are British. The consultancy’s latest world university … Continue reading
The Meaning Of The Second Coming
By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa The Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, Timothy Geithner, had called me at my desk at the Federal Reserve several weeks ago. As a lower mid-level Federal Reserve employee whose desk job … Continue reading
Where Is Obama On His Economic Program?
By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa I had submitted the following economic analysis and plan to the Obama-Biden transition team on November 23, 2008, when the transition to the new administration began. It would be interesting to take a measure … Continue reading
Comprehensive Tax Reform
By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa This paper was written by me on April 29, 2007 as a part of a graduate tax policy course for Johns Hopkins University’s Masters Degree in Applied Economics and was circulated at the Treasury … Continue reading
Is North Dakota Showing The Way On Earth Day 40?
By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa The Congress is once again faced with a dilemma: is financial regulatory reform going to raise domestic investment to create jobs? Jobs are at the top of the list of every representative and senator … Continue reading
