Jawaharlal
Nehru University
School of International Studies
Centre for Studies in Diplomacy, International Law and Economics
The International Trade
& Development
Division
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The Faculty
Sandwip Kumar Das, Professor
Ph.D. (Southern Methodist University)
Professor Das has taught at University
of Iowa in Iowa City, Southern Methodist University in Dallas, University of
British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada and Indian Institute of Management in
Lucknow. His research interests include microeconomics, trade theory and
applied econometrics. Professor Das has published papers in a large number of
reputed national and international journals.
Manmohan Lal Agarwal, Professor
Ph.D. (MIT)
Professor Agarwal has taught at
the Catholic University in Belgium and the University of Western Ontario in
London, Canada, and worked at the World Bank and the International Monetary
Fund. His research interests are in the areas of international economics
and environmental economics.
Alokesh Barua, Professor
Ph.D (J.N.U)
Dr. Barua has been part of the
faculty since the completion of his Ph.D from the same department in
1979. He first joined as an Assistant Professor and subsequently became
Associate Professor in 1987. He has visited Warwick University, Coventry,
U.K. as a Commonwealth Scholar in 1983 and the University of Michigan, Ann
Arbor, U.S.A as a Fulbright scholar in 1995. He has presented papers at the
World Bank, Washington, the Southern Methodist University and the University of
Texas A & M. His research interests lie in international trade theory,
resource and environment economics and industrial economics. His research papers
have been published in reputed national and international journals of
economics. He has been a co-editor of a book on Indian Economy in Transition
published in 1998.
Manoj Pant, Professor
Ph.D., Southern Methodist
University, Dallas
Dr. Pant taught at Delhi University
and at the Southern Methodist University before joining JNU in 1985. He
was a visiting scholar at the University of Sussex, U.K., University of British
Columbia, Canada and University of Cleveland, Ohio in 1988. He was also a visiting
Fulbright scholar at the Southern Methodist University, Dallas, and Columbia
University, Massachusetts in 1995. In India he has been a guest lecturer at the
IIM Lucknow and the Management Development Institute, Gurgaon. In 1995-97, he
was the national consultant to a World Bank- ICFRE project on Forestry. He has
a number of publications in international and national journals. He has written
a book on Foreign Direct Investment in India (1995) and is co-editor of a book
entitled “Indian Economy in Transition”, (1998). His research interests include
international economics, economics of transnational corporations, economics of
forestry and micro-economic theory.
Amit Shovon Ray, Associate Professor
D.Phil. (Oxford)
Prior to his joining J.N.U, Dr Ray has
taught as Reader in Economics at Calcutta University and at the Indian
Institute of Technology Delhi. He has also been a member of the senior research
staff at Oxford University Institute of Economics & Statistics and the
International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington DC. He has been a
research consultant to UNCTAD, Geneva, ICRIER, Delhi and VHAI, Delhi and is
presently the Director of a project on in-house R&D sponsored by the Dept
of Science & Technology (DST), Government of India. The areas of his
research interests are applied international economics, economics of
technology, rural development: human capital and health care. His research
papers have been published in India and abroad.
Prabal Roy Chowdhury, Associate Professor
Ph.D (Indian Statistical
Institute, Delhi)
Dr. Roy Chowdhury did his
post-doctoral work at the Centre for Operations Research and Economics (CORE),
at the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium. Before joining J.N.U. he taught
at I.S.I. Delhi and I.I.M. Calcutta. He was also a guest lecturer at I.S.I.
Calcutta. He has several publications in international and national journals of
repute. His research interests include transnational corporations, joint
ventures, the economics of technology, public finance and development
economics.
Dipankar Sengupta, Ford Foundation Fellow
M.Phil. (JNU)
Dipankar Sengupta joined the
Department as Ford Foundation Fellow after completing his M.Phil from the same
division. He has also been a guest lecturer at the National Institute of
Financial Management (Faridabad). His research interests lie in the areas of
industrial organisation theory and developments in the world economy,
especially evolution of the structures of firms and business organisations, and
Transition economies. He is also interested in World Politics and problems in
International Relations.
Shaon Ray, SBI Research Officer
M.Phil.(JNU)
Shaon Ray, who was a Ford Foundation
Fellow was appointed to the newly created post of SBI Research
Officer last year. A former student of the centre, her areas of interest are
Microeconomics and International Trade.
Apart from the regular faculty who are members of the Centre, ITDD also makes use of the services of a distinguished group of Professors who are not members of the centre but constitute an integral part of the M.A. programme.
Professor A.L. Nagar (NIPFP)
Statistics & Econometrics,
Advanced Econometrics
Ashok Guha*, Professor
Ph.D. (Harvard)
Professor Guha has taught at the
Universities of California at Berkley and Los Angeles, the University of Colorado,
Syracuse University and the Institute of Development Studies, University of
Sussex. He received the VKRV Rao award for the outstanding contribution by an
Indian economist in 1982 and was appointed National Lecturer in Economics in
1986. His research interests lie in economic development and economic theory.
Professor B.S. Chimni (CSDILE
JNU)
Environmental Law and WTO
Dr. Wilima Wadhwa (University of
California, Irvine & ISI Delhi)
Statistics & Econometrics,
Advanced Econometrics
Professor M.N. Murty(NCAER)
Environmental Economics
*currently
visiting Georgetown University.
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