Our Scholars

Ajay is currently Professor at the National Institute for Public Finance and Policy in Delhi. He is a former consultant to the Department of Economic Affairs at the Ministry of Finance and former Associate Professor, IGIDR. He was listed among the Top 10 economists in the Indian Express supplement 'The Most Powerful Indians in 2010'.

Geeta Gandhi Kingdon is Professor at the Institute of Education, University College London, where she holds the Chair of Education Economics and International Development.

Prior to this, she was Research Fellow for 11 years at the Department of Economics, University of Oxford.  Her research on Economics of Education is based mostly on statistical analysis of education datasets.  Based on this research, she advises governments and donor agencies.  In India, she has been a member of the MHRD’s ‘Joint Review Missions’ of public education programmes Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan and the Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan, and is a member of the Uttar Pradesh Secondary Education Board. Professor Kingdon is also President of the board of City Montessori School Lucknow, which has 52,000 students. She divides her time between the UK and India.

Renowned Professor of economics and regarded as one of the foremost international trade economists of recent times. He is presently University Professor at Columbia University and Senior Fellow in International Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations.

Taught at the London School of Economics since 1965. Was made a Professor of Economics in 1983 and he established the Centre for the study of Global Governance in 1992.

Nimai is Senior Professorial Lecturer, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, at American University, Washington D.C. Nimai’s area of research is on the quality and use of data under varying institutional contexts. He is the lead coordinator of a multidisciplinary effort at the university to employ data-science, economics, and machine-learning to improve data on missing and exploited children. He was previously the principal investigator for a UNICEF project on the quality of education data and reforms in Myanmar. He also held the position of Academic Director of the Economic Policy Program at the university, where his work focused on an empirical and institutional analysis of government failure. Nimai has held teaching positions at the School of Economics, University of the Philippines, where he was a Research Fellow and Program Associate. Prior positions include: Visiting Scholar at the James M. Buchanan Center for Political Economy, Virginia. Nimai obtained his Masters in Applied Economics from Bombay University, and a Doctorate in Economics from George Mason University.

Professor at Delhi School of Economics. He is also a researcher, policymaker and consultant on environment, natural resources, energy and urban issues. Taught at the universities of Delhi, Maryland, Jawaharlal Nehru University and National University of Singapore.

Managing Director of Oxus Research and Investments, a New Delhi-based economic research, asset management, and emerging-markets advisory firm. Taught at the Delhi School of Economics and worked at the Rand Corporation and the Brookings Institution.

Consulting Editor to the Economics Times and a Research Scholar at the Cato Institute. He was formerly Editor of two of India's biggest economic dailies, Financial Express from 1988-90 and The Economic Times from 1992-94.

Expert on economics and public finance, international trade, financial intermediation and regulation of infrastructure utilities. Also non-resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C. He has worked at the International Monetary Fund and as an adviser to both the Reserve Bank of India and the Ministry of Finance in New Delhi.​ He is Former Governor, Reserve Bank of India​.