Srijit Mishra

Professor of Economics @ University of Hyderabad

About

Srijit Mishra, PhD (Professor, School of Economics, University of Hyderabad; Dr VKRV Rao Fellow Award 2025, The Applied Economics Society; former Professor and former Dean of Academic and Student Affairs, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR), Mumbai; former Director, Nabakrushna Choudhury Centre for Development Studies (NCDS), Bhubaneswar, an Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) institute) researches and teaches on development-related issues that intertwine between social philosophy, analytical measurement and applied development. He has been instrumental in spearheading the Odisha Millets Mission (now Shree Anna Abhiyan) that brought together the Government, civil society and the Academia for a pro-people action research initiative that works in four verticals - production, processing, marketing and consumption. His work on cyclone Fani, as part of a multi-disciplinary team involving the Government of Odisha and many multilateral agencies, dealt with macroeconomic and human impact that has important methodological and policy implications. His work on farmers' suicides in Maharashtra led to the setting-up of Vasantrao Naik Sheti Swavlamban Mission and other policy outcomes, including the deliberations leading to debt waiver. Some of his publications are on agrarian issues, measurement of development indicators, and poverty among others. He has been a Guest Scholar at Meiji University, Japan during June 2016, ICCR Chair Professor at the National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan, spring semester, 2015, and Subir Chowdhury Fellow on Quality and Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, spring 2014. His M.Phil./Ph.D. on tribal agrarian economies were carried out at the Centre for Development Studies (CDS), Thiruvananthapuram and awarded by the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi.

Country

India

City

Hyderabad

Industry

Higher Education

Skill

Teaching, Research, Mentoring, Academic Administration, Conferences, Writing

Experience

Professor of Economics

University of Hyderabad

2024-8 - Present · 2 yrs 2 mos

Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Teach courses of EC111 Introduction to Economics (Odd semester), EC802 Research and Publication Ethics (odd semester), EC454 Game Theory (even semester). Facilitated PRANITI (Policies for Reimagining Agriculture through Nature- Integrated Technology and Innovation) internships for students through APCNF, CSA and RRA Network.

Professor

Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research

2002-9 - 2024-8 · 22 yrs

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Research and teaching applied development economics. Specific areas of interest being social philosophy, analytical measurement, human development and capability, public policy, agricultural economics, public health and game theory. At IGIDR I worked in different capacities, viz., Visiting Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor, Associate Professor and Professor (the latter since February 2015 till August 2024).

Dean of Academic and Student Affairs

Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research

2021-10 - 2023-9 · 2 yrs

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Overseeing admissions, academic programme management, examinations, and placement among others.

Director

Nabakrishna Choudhury Centre for Development Studies, Bhubaneswar

2015-9 - 2020-9 · 5 yrs 1 mo

Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India

Administrative and Academic head of an ICSSR research institute set-up in collaboration with Government of Odisha. Research and teaching in applied development economics. Was instrumental in submitting a proposal on Odisha Millets Mission (now known as Shree Anna Abhiyan), which was taken up by the Government of Odisha, with NCDS being made the State Secretariat. The Mission had a unique institutional architecture with the Government, civil society and the Academica complementing and supplementing each other wherein the interventions were in four verticals - production, processing, marketing and consumption. The mission's success has been appreciated in public policy and academic circles. During this period, I was on secondment from IGIDR.

ICCR Chair Professor

National Chengchi University

2015-3 - 2015-6 · 4 mos

Taipei City, Taiwan

Research and teaching on applied development economics (in particular, I taught a course on human development and policy) in its International Doctoral Programe on Asia-Pacific Studies. During this period I was on secondment from IGIDR.