M Suresh Babu

Director and Professor

Areas of Research

A R Venkatachalapathy

Professor

Areas of Research

Social History; Cultural History and Intellectual History.

Ajit Menon

Professor

Areas of Research

The Political Economy of Natural resource use and environmental policy; Decentralization and State-Civil Society Dynamics; Environmental History and Agrarian Transformation.

L Venkatachalam

Professor (RBI Chair)

Areas of Research

Environmental Economics; Ecological Economics, Behavioural economics and institutional economics.

M Vijayabaskar

Professor

Areas of Research

Industrial Organisation; Labour Markets and their articulation with Technological change and Product Market Dynamics.

A Kalaiyarasan

Associate Professor

Areas of Research

Economic Development, Political Economy of Inequality, Institutional Change and Regional Political Economy.

Umanath

Assistant Professor

Areas of Research

Food and Nutrition Security, Sustainable Production and Consumption of Food Commodities, Energy, Water and Natural Resource and Management

K Jafar

Assistant Professor

Areas of Research

Interested in Development with focus on its link with Education, Labour Migration, Financial Inclusion, Local Planning, Informality, IPRs and Gender.

Hafsal K

Assistant Professor

Areas of Research

Financial Economics, Macroeconomics, Applied Econometrics. Efficiency and Productivity Analysis.

Rida Wanbha Nongbri

Assistant Professor

Areas of Research

Micro Economics, Environmental and Resource Economics, Water Economics, Econometrics, Applied Econometrics, Development Economics.

Prajwal Nagesh

Assistant Professor

Areas of Research

Urban inequalities, Political economy of urbanisation, Urban transport and mobilities, Sociology of food, Caste studies, Qualitative research, Ethnography.

Nelson Mandela S

Assistant Professor

Areas of Research

Political Economy, Inequality, Labour and Employment, Agrarian Change, Tribal Livelihood Issues.

Monalisha Chakraborty

Assistant Professor

Areas of Research

Migration studies, Labour studies (particularly labour migration, labour force participation, wage gap), gender studies, and child health (nutritional health, morbidity and psychological health) and education.

Abhishek Anand

Visiting Fellow

Areas of Research