People


Find out who's at the India Observatory

Chairs

Professor Lord Nicholas Stern 
IG Patel Professor of Economics and Government 
Co-Chair India Observatory 
Chair of the Grantham Research Institute 
Tel: +44 (0)20 7955 7871 
Email: N.Stern@lse.ac.uk

Dr Ruth Kattumuri 
Co-Chair India Observatory 
Tel: +44 (0)20 7107 5217 
Email: R.Kattumuri@lse.ac.uk

Administrative Staff

Ms Kerrie Quirk 
PA to Professor Stern 
Tel: +44 (0)20 7852 3556
Email: K.Quirk@lse.ac.uk

 

Visiting Fellows and Professors

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Dr Wasim Ahmad 
Subir Chowdhury Fellow 
Email: ahmadwasimdu@gmail.com

Ashish Dongare

Dr Ashish Dongare
Sir Ratan Tata Post-Doctoral Fellow
Email: A.Dongare@lse.ac.uk

 

Professor Linda Hantrais 
Visiting Professor 
Email: L.Hantrais@lse.ac.uk

Soham Sadoo

Dr Soham Sahoo
Subhir Chowdhury Visiting Fellow
Email: S.Sahoo4@lse.ac.uk

 

Dr Malvika Tyagi 
Sir Ratan Tata Fellow 
Email: M.Tyagi@lse.ac.uk

Research Fellows

 

Mr Shantanu Singh 
Email: S.Singh49@lse.ac.uk

 

Research Assistants

Ms Mehak Garg 
Email: M.Garg8@lse.ac.uk

 

Associates

Professor Sumantra Bose 
Department of Government 
Email: S.Bose@lse.ac.uk

Dr Saipriya Kamath 
Department of Accounting 
Email: S.Kamath2@lse.ac.uk

Dr Sunil Kumar 
Department of Social Policy 
Email: S.Kumar@lse.ac.uk

 

Professor David Piachaud 
Emeritus Professor of Social Policy 
Email: D.Piachaud@lse.ac.uk

Professor Tirthankar Roy 
Department of Economic History 
Email: T.Roy@lse.ac.uk

 

Past Visiting Fellows, PhD Students and Research Assistants

2019-20

  • Ms Ankita Narain, Visiting Fellow

2018-19

2017-18

2016-17

2015-16

2014-15

  • Mr Jonathan Colmer, Bagri Fellow

  • Mr Jason Garred, Bagri Fellow

  • Dr Dametken Taubaldiyeva, Bolashak International Scholar

  • Mr Zehao Cai, Visiting PhD Student

  • Dr Saurabh Kumar, Subir Chowdhury Fellow

  • Mr Yangyang Liu, Visiting PhD Student

  • Dr Saswata Ghosh, Sir Ratan Tata Fellow

  • Dr Lijie Fang, Visiting Fellow

  • Mr Ran Zhou, Visiting PhD Student

  • Dr Shengmin Sun, Visiting Senior Fellow

  • Dr Jiayan Liu, Visiting Fellow

  • Dr Yi Ding, Visiting Fellow

  • Dr Huiming Zong, Visiting Fellow

  • Dr Roger Montgomery, Visiting Senior Fellow

2013-14

2012-13

  • Ms Ying Hua, Visiting PhD student

  • Ms Juli Huang, Tata PhD Fellow

  • Ms Taneesha Mohan, Tata PhD Fellow

  • Mr Francesco Obino, Bagri Fellow

  • Mr Praveen Priyadarshi, Tata PhD Fellow

  • Mr Rajneesh Verma, Bagri Fellow

  • Dr Marina Martin, Visiting Fellow

  • Dr Sudeep Basu, CR Parekh Fellow

  • Professor Avatthi Ramaiah, LSE/Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) Academic Exchange Fellow

  • Dr Mrutuyanjaya Sahu, Subir Chowdhury Fellow

  • Dr Satyapriya Rout, Sir Ratan Tata Fellow

  • Mr Fengyuan Chen, Visiting PhD student

  • Dr Vili Lehdonvirta, Visiting Fellow

  • Ms Meghadeepa Chakraborty, LSE/Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) Academic Exchange Fellow

  • Dr Jiangli Wang, Visiting Fellow

2011-12

  • Ms Hong Lin, Visiting Fellow

  • Dr Manju Singh, Sir Ratan Tata Fellow

  • Dr Vanishree Joseph, Subir Chowdhury Fellow

  • Dr Anup Shekhar Chakraborty, CR Parekh Fellow

  • Ms Jaya Goyal, LSE/Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) Academic Exchange Fellow

  • Ms Prerna Kumar, LSE/Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) Academic Exchange Fellow

  • Mr Krishna Muniyoor, LSE/Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) Academic Exchange Fellow

  • Dr Rohit Mutatkar, LSE/Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) Academic Exchange Fellow

  • Dr Ramakumar Ramasubramonian, LSE/Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) Academic Exchange Fellow

  • Dr Gaurang Sahay, LSE/Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) Academic Exchange Fellow

  • Dr Madhushree Sekher, LSE/Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) Academic Exchange Fellow

  • Dr Pushpendra Kumar Singh, LSE/Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) Academic Exchange Fellow

  • Mr Michael Hoffman, Bagri Fellow

  • Mr Jayaraj Sundaresan, Bagri Fellow

  • Mr Oliver Vanden Eynde, Bagri Fellow

  • Dr Naijun Hu, Visiting Fellow

  • Mr Jack Chen, CJ Modi-Narayanan Fellow

  • Mr Rajeev Sibal, CJ Modi-Narayanan Fellow

  • Dr Peter Zarrow, Visiting Fellow

2010-11

  • Dr Peter Lanjouw, Visiting Senior Fellow

  • Professor Chenggang Xu, Visiting Senior Fellow

  • Dr Javier Gil Pérez, Visiting Fellow

  • Professor Xianglai Tang, Visiting Fellow

  • Dr SeongOk Kim, Korea Foundation/LSE Academic Exchange Fellow

  • Dr Sangsoo Lee, Visiting Fellow

  • Dr Rahul Hiremath, Subir Chowdhury Fellow

  • Ms Dang Bich Thuy, Visiting Fellow

  • Dr Wei Gong, Visiting Fellow

  • Ms Elizabeth Frantz, Bagri Fellow

  • Mr Samarjit Ghosh, Bagri Fellow

  • Mr Selim Gulesci, Bagri Fellow

  • Mr Prashant Sharma, Bagri Fellow

  • Dr Pushpa Adhikari, Visiting Fellow

  • Dr Deepita Chakravarty, Sir Ratan Tata Fellow

  • Mr John Everard, Visiting Senior Fellow

  • Mr Konrad Burchardi, CJ Modi-Narayanan Fellow

  • Mr Rajeev Sibal, CJ Modi-Narayanan Fellow

  • Mr Prakarsh Singh, CJ Modi-Narayanan Fellow

  • Mr Jack Chen, Pre-Doctoral Fellow

  • Ms Yi Ding, Visiting PhD Student

  • Ms Mei Wang, Visiting PhD Student

  • Dr Rosina Nasir, CR Parekh Fellow

  • Dr On-Song Shin, Visiting Fellow

  • Mr Guilian Luo, Visiting PhD Student

  • Professor Yunwon Hwang, Korea Foundation/LSE Academic Exchange Fellow

  • Dr EunJeong Ma, Korea Foundation/LSE Academic Exchange Fellow

  • Professor Mukul Asher, Visiting Professor

  • Mr Liejun Wang, Visiting PhD Student

  • Ms Anjali Dave, LSE/Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) Academic Exchange Fellow

  • Ms Milly Sil, LSE/Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) Academic Exchange Fellow

  • Ms Asha Bajpai, LSE/Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) Academic Exchange Fellow

  • Mr Samarjit Ghosh, Visiting Fellow

  • Professor Govardhan Wankhede, LSE/Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) Academic Exchange Fellow

  • Dr Shunji Cui, British Academy Fellow

2009-10

  • Professor Dilip Nachane, ESRC Visiting Research Fellow

  • Mr Baolu Yang, Visiting PhD Student

  • Mr Rui Wang, Visiting PhD Student

  • Ms Sanchari Roy, Bagri Fellow

  • Dr Sanjay K Bhardwaj, Sir Ratan Tata Fellow

  • Mr Konrad Burchardi, CJ Modi-Narayanan Fellow

  • Mr Ameet Morjaria, CJ Modi-Narayanan Fellow

  • Ms Megha Mukim, CJ Modi-Narayanan Fellow

  • Mr Prashant Sharma, CJ Modi-Narayanan Fellow

  • Dr Mutsumi Hirano, Visiting Fellow

  • Dr Sanjay Mohanty, CR Parekh Fellow

  • Dr Rohit Mutatkar, LSE/Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) Academic Exchange Fellow

  • Professor Chandan Sengupta, LSE/Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) Academic Exchange Fellow

2008-09

  • Dr Sumita Sarkar, Sir Ratan Tata Fellow

  • Dr Ting Xu, Visiting Fellow

  • Dr Martin Jacques, Visiting Fellow

  • Professor Hyung Shik Kim, Korea Foundation/LSE Academic Exchange Fellow

  • Dr Jai S Mah, Korea Foundation/LSE Academic Exchange Fellow

  • Dr Asma Hyder Baloch, Visiting Fellow

  • Dr Susyan Jou, Visiting Fellow

  • Mr Dave Donaldson, Bagri Fellow

  • Dr Richa Minocha, CR Parekh Fellow

  • Dr Imran Chaudhry, Visiting Fellow

  • Mr Daniel Hawallek, Pre-Doctoral Fellow

  • Mr Naijun Hu, Visiting PhD Student

  • Ms Bhuvana Raman, Pre-Doctoral Fellow

  • Lu Xing, Visiting PhD Student

  • Yuanchun Zhou, Visiting PhD Student

  • Professor James Kuriath, ESRC Visiting Research Fellow

  • Maha Aziz, CJ Modi-Narayanan Fellow

  • Madhav Aney, CJ Modi-Narayanan Fellow

  • Dr Shunji Cui, Visiting Fellow

  • Dr Ashima Das, LSE/Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) Academic Exchange Fellow

  • Abdul Shaban, LSE/Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) Academic Exchange Fellow

2007-08

  • Dr Seetha Kakkoth, Sir Ratan Tata Fellow

  • Dr Himanshu, CR Parekh Fellow

  • Dr Xiangqun Chang, Visiting Fellow

  • Professor Reinhard Drifte, Visiting Fellow

  • Dr Lawrence Saez, Visiting Fellow

2006-07

  • Dr Samapti Guha, Sir Ratan Tata Fellow

  • Dr Bindu Ramachandran, CR Parekh Fellow

  • Dr Kerry Brown, Associate Fellow, Asia Programme, Chatham House

  • Dr Deok Soon Hwang, Senior Fellow, Korea Labour Institute

  • Dr Haichuan Jiang, University of International Business and Economics, People's Republic of China

  • Ms Shuli Lin, Ministry of Labour & Social Security, People's Republic of China

  • Dr Joel Ruet, Centre for Industrial Economics at the Ecole des Mines de Paris (CERNA)

  • Dr Hyun Bang Shin, Department of Geography and Environment, LSE

  • MMr Xuelin Wang, Ministry of Labour & Social Security, People's Republic of China

  • Mr Shan Yuan, Ministry of Labour & Social Security, People's Republic of China

2005-06

  • Dr Dr Praveena Kodoth, Sir Ratan Tata Fellow

  • Dr Mathew John, CR Parekh Fellow

  • Dr Rumi Aijaz, Research Fellow, Observer Research Foundation, India

  • Dr Se-Hyun Ahn, Seoul National University, Republic of Korea

  • Professor Yulei Rao, Professor of Finance, Central South University, People's Republic of China

  • Dr Zhenlong Zheng, Professor of Finance, Xiamen University, People's Republic of China

  • Dr Bi-yu Chang, SOAS

  • Ms Linda Lin-Chiao Wang (short-term visitor), Taiwan

  • Professor Mu Qiao, Director of International Communication Studies, Beijing Foreign Studies University, People's Republic of China

  • Professor Chengyao Lei, People's Republic of China

  • Professor Jianbo Chen, People's Republic of China

  • Dr Gerald Tan, Emeritus Professor, Flinders Asia Centre, Flinders University, Australia

  • Professor Yeon-Myung Kim, Republic of Korea

2004-05

  • Dr Sushil Aaron, Sir Ratan Tata Fellow

  • Dr Anitha Ramanna, CR Parekh Fellow

  • Dr Ernesto R. Gonzales, Pontifical University of Sto. Tomas, Espana, Metro-Manila, Philippines

  • Professor James Cotton, Australia

  • Dr Shu-hsien Chang, Taiwan

  • Professor Jiang Ping, Dongbei University of Finance and Economics, Dalian, People's Republic of China

  • Dr Jinmin Wang, Zhejiang University, People's Republic of China

  • Professor Mushtaq Mirani, Mehran University of Engineering and Technology, Jamshoro, Pakistan

2003-04

  • Dr Minakshi Das, Sir Ratan Tata Fellow

  • Dr Liselotte Odgaard

  • Dr Teresa Tadem

  • Mr Masaaki Tonedachi

2002-03

  • Dr Santanu Gupta, Sir Ratan Tata Fellow

  • Dr Maneesha Tikekar

2001-02

  • Dr Haripriya Gundimeda, Sir Ratan Tata Fellow

  • Professor Harry Gelber, University of Tasmania and Boston University

  • Dr GuoYan, Peking University

2000-01

  • Dr Biswamoy Pati, Sir Ratan Tata Fellow

  • Dr Elaine Elliott, Australian National University

1999-2000

  • Dr Geetangali Gangoli, Sir Ratan Tata Fellow

  • Professor Maurice Meisner, LSE Visiting Centennial Professor

Before 1999

  • Dr Mehtab Karim, Sir Ratan Tata Fellow 1998/99

  • Dr Madhura Swaminathan, Sir Ratan Tata Fellow 1997/98

  • Dr Jean Dreze, Delhi School of Economics

  • Dr Panitan Wattanayagorn, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok