Prof. Pritha Dev

Ph.D. (New York University), M.A. (Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi Center)

Pritha is an economist by training and currently an Associate Professor at IIMA. Before joining IIMA, Pritha was working as faculty at the Business School of the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) in Mexico City, Mexico. Her areas of interest in research include Networks, Game Theory and Gender. Her policy experience has included a project on price predation in the Indian e-commerce sector under Niti Ayog and a project on sexual harassment of low wage workers under the National Human Rights Commission.

Her work with networks has had both a game theoretic focus as well as an empirical focus. She is one of the co-organizers of the Network Science conference at the IIMA. Her other game theoretic work has looked at conflict and terrorism. Her work on gender has focused on sexual harassment and bias. The work on gender spans theoretical, empirical and experimental work.

She fluently speaks Hindi, Bengali, English and Spanish.

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Prof. Ambrish Dongre

Ph.D. (Economics), University of California, Santa Cruz (USA)
M.A. (Economics), Univeristy of Mumbai

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Prof. Kathan Shukla

Ph.D. in Educational Research, Statistics & Evaluation, University of Virginia, Virginia, USA (2015)
M.Ed. in Educational Psychology, University of Houston, Texas, USA (December 2010)
M.Sc. in Solid State Physics, Sardar Patel University, Gujarat, India (2007)
B.Sc. in Physics, St. Xavier's College, Gujarat University, Gujarat, India (2005)

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Prof. Akshaya Vijayalakshmi

Ph.D. (Iowa State University)

Akshaya is an Assistant Professor of Marketing at IIMA. Akshaya is interested in marketing research with public policy implications. One of the themes of her research is understanding how parents navigate the marketplace making effective choices for the children. Akshaya is also interested in understanding how sensory experiences affects one's consumption behaviour.

Akshaya is also beginning to work on gender related topics. Currently, she is working on a project on sexual harassment of low wage workers for the National Human Rights Commission. She uses experiments, ethnographic and survey methods to answer her research questions.

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Prof. Neharika Vohra

University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
1992 - 1995 Ph.D. - Social Psychology
1989 - 1992 M.A. - Social Psychology
Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, India
1986 - 1988 M.A. - Developmental and Educational Psychology (Ranked 1st)
Sambalpur University, S.K.D.A.V. College, Rourkela, India
1982 - 1986 B.A.(Hons.)- Psychology and Minor in Economics (Ranked 1st)

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Prof. Chinmay Tumbe

Fellow/PhD (IIM-Bangalore)
M.Sc (London School of Economics & Political Science)

Chinmay Tumbe is faculty member in the Economics Area of IIM-A and was the 2018 Alfred D. Chandler Jr International Visiting Scholar in Business History at Harvard Business School. He works on migration, cities, firms and history. He chairs the IIMA Archives initiative and coordinates the History Internship series at IIMA. He has been a faculty member at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Hyderabad and was the 2013 Jean Monnet Fellow at the Migration Policy Centre, European University Institute, Florence, Italy. He has published widely on migration for a decade and has served on policy-making groups. He is the author of India Moving: A History of Migration (Penguin, 2018).

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Prof. Devasmita Chakraverty

PhD- University of Virginia
MPH- University of Washington
MSc- University of Calcutta

Devasmita is an educational researcher and currently an assistant professor at the Ravi J. Matthai Centre for Educational Innovation, IIMA. Prior to this, Devasmita was an assistant professor of science education, Washington State University. 

Devasmita combines her interdisciplinary expertise to understand persistence, attrition, and workforce development in fields such as science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine, examining the experiences of the underrepresented groups. Recent work has focused on the transition experiences for MD-PhD dual-degree students. Devasmita also examines the impostor phenomenon (popularly known as the "impostor syndrome") among students and professionals in higher education. She examines the role of gender, age, minority status, discipline, and mentoring experiences that contribute to this phenomenon as well as strategies to manage it. Devasmita teaches Ph.D.-level courses in survey development and implementation and academic writing. She has conducted research and taught in India, USA, and Germany.

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Prof. Jeevant Rampal

Ph.D. Economics, Ohio State University
M.A. Economics, Delhi School of Economics

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Prof. Meenakshi Sharma

PhD in English (1998) from University of Queensland, Australia
MA (Research)(1994) in English from University of Queensland, Australia
MA in English (1984)in English from Lucknow University, India

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Prof. Sukhpal Singh

Ph.D.(Economics), Institute for Social and Economic Change (ISEC), Bangalore, Bangalore University, Bangalore.
M.Phil. (Applied Economics), Centre for Development Studies (CDS), Thiruvananthapurum (Kerala), Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi

Sukhpal Singh is Professor, and former Chairperson, Centre for Management in Agriculture (CMA), Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad, Gujarat, Former Director General, Centre for Research in Rural and Industrial Development (CRRID) Chandigarh, and Former Professor and Head, Agril. Eco. Res. Unit, Institute of Economic Growth (IEG), New Delhi.

He is founding co-editor, Millennial Asia-an intl. journal of Asian studies, and a member of the editorial boards of many national and international journals. He has 12 books, the latest being: Institutional innovations in the delivery of farmer services in India (2018, Springer), and more than 140 research papers in international/national journals/edited books, and more than 90 review articles/articles in popular dailies/magazines, to his credit. He has been conferred the title of the Fellow of the Indian Society of Agricultural Economics for his contributions to the discipline and the Society in 2018. He is on the boards of many non-profits working in the agri and rural space. He has delivered more than 80 national and international Key Note Addresses/Special/Invited Lectures/Valedictory Addresses/Panel Talks and presented more than 130 papers in various conferences, workshops and seminars in India and abroad.

He was a visiting fellow at the IDS, Sussex (the UK), Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok (Thailand), the University of Manchester (the UK); and the Copenhagen Business School (Denmark), and a member of various committees/working groups of the Planning Commission of India/NITI, the National Development Council, the Food Safety Standards Authority of India, and the EC of the Mission on Integrated Development of Horticulture (MIDH). He is a member of the expert group on agriculture and allied activities of the Niti Aayog, and was a member of the standing working group on agri and allied sectors of Chhattisgarh State Planning Commission, and the committee for FPO policy for Punjab and committee on MSP and other mechanisms for farmers in Chhattisgarh. He has provided research support to international agencies like ADB, FAO, ILO, ICCO, IFAD, International Trade Centre of the UN, Traidcraft, and the World Bank.

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Prof. Vaibhavi Kulkarni

PhD in Organizational Communicatin (2013)
School of Communication and Information, Rutgers University

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Prof. Tarun Jain

Ph.D. in Economics, University of Virginia
B.A. in Mathematics and Economics, Franklin and Marshall College

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Prof. Vidya Vemireddy

Ph.D. Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University, USA (2019)
M.A Economics, Boston University, USA (2013)
B.A. (Hons) Economics, Lady Shri Ram College for Women, Delhi University, India (2012)

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