Faculty
Professor Muchkund Dubey (President) formerly served in the Indian Foreign Service and was a Professor in International Relations at Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi. He is researching a wide array of issues related to world economy, international monetary and trading systems, security and disarmament, South Asian cooperation and international relations.
Shri Vinod C. Khanna (Hony. Executive Chairperson) is a retired Ambassador. He is Emeritus Fellow at the Institute of Chinese Studies; Principal Consultant, Tech Mahindra Foundation; Founder Trustee, Pratham Delhi Education Initiative and Trustee of the Rajeshwar Susheela Dayal Charitable Trust.
Shri D. Bandyopadhyay (Visiting Professor) was Secretary to the Government of India in the Ministries of Finance (Revenue) and Rural Development and also served as India's Executive Director in the Asian Development Bank,Manila. While serving in West Bengal he was mainly responsible for developing the methodology of and implementing the 'Operation Banga' which became a model for land reforms in India. Given his expertise in rural development, agrarian relations and land reforms, labour and Panchayati Raj, he had been entrusted by the Government of India with a variety of assignments. He had been the convener of the Task Force on Panchayats in the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation for almost a decade. In the academic feild, he is Chancellor's nominee as a Member of the Senate of the University of Calcutta as well as a Member of the Court of the University of Kalyani. He was also the Chairman of the Governing Body of the Indian Institute of Management, Kolkata from 1982 to 1987. He has authored many scholarly articles in reputed national journals and newspapers on topical subjects.
Dr. M. K. Jabbi (Director) did her B.A.Hons and Masters in Psychology with specialisations in clinical psychology and psychopathology. She was a gold medalist both at the graduation as well as at the post-graduation level. She was awarded the UGC Junior Research Felloship for her doctoral thesis on religious identity and prejudice in Sikh students for her Ph.D (1980). She has been in the Council since then and has worked on almost two dozen projects on a wide range of issues including literacy, health, population and issues related to children, women and tribals. She has undertaken several evaluation studies in the field of literacy and has co-edited two books on tribal programmes on M&E. She was sponsored by the UNFPA to attend a five week Training workshop on Women in Management organised by the Centre for Development and Population Activities, Washington, D.C.
Professor T. Haque (Director – Academic) is a well known agricultural economist. Before joining CSD, he was Chairman, Commission for Agricultural Costs of Prices, Govt. of India for above 5 years and ICAR National Fellow/Professor at the National Centre for Agricultural Economics and Policy Research, New Delhi for five years. He served as consultant to several international organizations such as ILO, FAO, AARDO, The World Bank and ICA. He also served as visiting Fellow to IFPRI, U.S.A. Oxford University, U.K. and University of Alberta, Canada. Prof. Haque worked as member/chairman of several professional societies, working groups and advisory boards of Planning Commission, Ministry of Rural Development, Ministry of Agriculture, CII, ICAR, NIRD, HIRD and others. Prof. Haque has published six books, nineteen research reports and seventy five research papers and articles in journals of national and international repute.
Dr. Prodipto Roy (Emeritus Professor) has PhD in rural sociology. His areas of interest include rural development, environmental management, local empowerment and urbanization.
Professor Amit Bhaduri (Visiting Professor) after his degrees in Economics from the Universities of Calcutta and Cambridge received Ph.D. from Cambridge University. He was awarded Stevenson Prize for the best piece of research in that University in 1966. He was extended Honorary Life Fellowship of the Centre for Development Studies, Trivandrum, in 1974. He was given the ICSSR Prize in recognition of original work in Economics in 1983. He was nominated to Honorary Life Professorship of Jawaharlal Nehru University in 1986. He held teaching positions in the Presidency College, Kolkata; Pembroke College, Cambridge; Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi; Centre for Development Studies, Trivandrum; Standford University, USA; El College de Mexico, USA; Universities of Vienna and Linz, Austria; University of Bologna, Italy; Indian Institute of Management, Kolkata; University of Bremen, Germany; University of Trondheim, Norway; Wissenschafts Kolleg zu Berlin; Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim; Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in Social Sciences; and Department of Political Economy, University of Paiva, Italy. Prof. Bhaduri acted as Research Consultant to ILO, UNCTAD, UNDP, UNIDO, U.N., and Economic Commission for Asia and the Pacific Economic Commission for the Middle East; Vienna Institute of Comparative Economic Studies; and Development Bank of South Africa. Prof. Bhaduri has 5 books to his credit and has published more than 70 research articles in international journals of repute.
Dr. Hari Mohan Mathur (Visiting Professor) has wide experience in resettlement (research, social impact assessment, policies, planning, monitoring, evaluation, training and capacity building) having worked during last 10 years with the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank and other developmental agencies. The experience covers a variety of projects, including dams for hydropower and irrigation, thermal power, coal mining, urban improvement, canals and highways. As staff consultant to the Asian Development Bank, he prepared a Resettlement Plan for the Calcutta Environmental Improvement Project (2000). Working recently on other ADB projects, he helped establish a Social Development & Resettlement Unit within the National Highways Authority of India (2001), and carried out a review of the NHAI resettlement experience (2003). Earlier as a member of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS), served government of India and held highest positions including Chief Secretary, Government of Rajasthan State, Joint Secretary to the Government of India and Head, Training Division and Director of the HCM Institute of Public Administration. Also he served as Vice Chancellor, University of Rajasthan. He was posted in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia as Development Administration Specialist at the UN Asia and Pacific Development Centre (1982-84), and in Kampala as UN Adviser to the UN, Adviser to the Government of Uganda (1984-86) on development management. He is a Life Member, Society for International Development (Headquarters in Rome). He is the Editor Resettlement News, published twice a year in January and July. He authored and edited numerous books on resettlement, anthropology and development and published articles in international journals. His publications on resettlement include: Development, Displacement and Resettlement: Focus on Asian experiences, edited with Michael Cernea (Vikas, 1955), Managing Projects that involve Resettlement: Case Studies from Rajasthan, India (World Bank/EDI 1997) and Development Projects and Impoverishment Risks: Resettling Project-Affected People in India, edited with David Marsden (Oxford, 1998). As editor of the Eastern Anthropologist, he published its special issue on resettlement (2000).
Professor Manoranjan Mohanty (Durgabai Deshmukh Professor of Social Development) did Ph.D in 1971 from the University of California, Berkeley on 'Chinese Revolution and the Indian Communist Movement'. At post-graduation from University of Delhi, he stood first class first. He received Karan Singh Award, C.T.Chacko Prize and the National Scholarship. He served the University of Delhi in the Department of Political Science at various levels. He is the Co-chairperson and Hony.Fellow, Institute of Chinese Studies,CSDS; Visiting Professor, Institute of Human Development, New Delhi; President, Orissa Research Institute; Fellow Emeritus, Developing Countries Research Centre, university of Delhi. He had visiting assignments at Moscow, Berkeley, Oxford, Amsterdam, Lagos, Los Angeles, California etc. He conducted a number of International Studies and published articles/papers in numerous national and international periodicals. He published more than 10 books. His interests in Human Rights and Peace Movement as well as Oriya literature are noteworthy.
Shri K. B. Saxena (Professor of Social Justice and Governance) has been a student of Political Science in the University of Delhi. He joined the Indian Administrative Service in 1964 and held important government positions such as Joint Secretary, Land Reforms; Addl. Chief Secretary, Govt. of Bihar; Secretary in the Ministries of Welfare, Rural Development and Health, Government of India. He was Principal Adviser to the Planning Commission as well. He prepared report on Atrocities against SCs for National Human Rights Commission.He contributed numerous of articles/papers and edited many books.
Dr. N. J. Kurian (Visiting Professor) has Ph.D.in Economics from the University of Western Ontario, Canada. His areas of interest include ‘public policies’ relating to agriculture, employment, poverty and public economics. During the past 10 years he has been working on the topics of fiscal federalism, tax policy, expenditure policy, State finances and regional disparities in social and economic development. His experience includes teaching and research work at university level. He was with Government of India for more than three decades and held a number of senior positions including that of Advisor Planning Commission and Ministry of Finance. He served as chairman/member of a number of committees/study groups/working groups set up by the Planning Commission, Ministry of Finance, Reserve Bank of India and State Governments. He has also served as consultant to a number of international organizations. Dr. Kurian has published more than fifty research papers in National and International Journals of repute. Besides, several articles in leading dailies on issues of public interest have been published. A number of papers have also been published in books edited by eminent authors for reputed publishers.
Dr. Ajit Kumar Ghose (Visiting Professor) did his Ph.D.in Economics from University of Cambridge (U.K). He worked at Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford (U.K), World Bank Washington D.C (USA) and later joined the International Labour Organisation and worked in various capacities for almost three decades. He authored five books and contributed a number of articles to various international journals. Many reports and working papers are also to his credit.
Dr. Prashant Kumar Trivedi (Associate Fellow) has done his Doctorate on Dalit Women and Social Development: A Sociological Study of Lucknow District of Uttar Pradesh from the University of Lucknow in Sociology. His main areas of interest are rural studies, women and Dalits. He has presented and published several papers in national and international seminars, conferences and journals.
Mr. Mukesh Kumar Shrivastava (Associate Fellow) has submitted his Ph.D on 'A Study of Educational Problems of the School-Going Tribal Students in the District of Ranchi' from A. N.Sinha Institute of Social Studies, Patna, in Magadh University of Bodh Gaya. Earlier he did his M.A. in Sociology from Patna University, Patna. He received ICSSR Doctorol Felloship and Young Sociologist Award for the Best Abstract submitted to RC-15 by All India Sociological Society. His areas of interest include school education and underprivileged groups of society; policy, finance and Panchayati Raj Institutions in relation to school education; and Right to Education & Common School System in India. He worked for the Common School System Commission, Govt. of Bihar and in a handful of projects related to different aspects of school education. He also worked as guest faculty at Post Graduate Department of Sociology, Patna University. He has presented several papers at national and international Seminars and Conferences.
Dr. Kaustav Banerjee (Associate Fellow) was awarded Ph.D. in Economics from the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, JNU, New Delhi in 2009. His thesis Topic is “The Political Economy of Backwardness in Agrarian Systems: The Role of Social Groups, States and Markets”. He also has an M.Phil. degree in Economics and did his M.A. in Economics from the International Trade and Development Division, JNU. He has taught at the Department of Business Economics, Delhi University, South Campus from Dec 2002 – Dec 2004 as an ad-hoc Lecturer. His courses included Econometric Methodology (M. Phil Course) and Macroeconomic Theory and Policy, International Trade Theory, Econometric Methodology, Statistics, Game Theory (M. A. Courses). He was also Lecturer at Department of Economics, College of Vocational Studies, Delhi University for the B.B.A. Course. Papers taught by him include Macroeconomic Theory and Policy, Statistics. He was also guest lecturer at Institute of Technology and Management, Gurgaon. Apart from this, he has been Co-ordinator for the UNDP-Ministry of Rural Development project: “Monitoring and Evaluation of National Rural Employment Guarantee Act in the states of Jharkhand, Chattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh”. He has also been researcher on several other projects for ILO, UNDP, Ford Foundation and Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, New Delhi. His areas of interest are development economics and agrarian studies.
Mr. A. P. Rai (Research Assistant) M.A. in Political Science has been associated with the Council for more than two decades. He mainly coordinates and supervises the field investigations of CSD's research studies.
Ms. Jaya Lekshmi Nair (Research Assistant) is M.Sc. in Physics and has an advanced diploma in computer application. She works with faculty members for data analysis and assists in organising seminars and updating website. Jaya has expertise in web designing and looks after the web portal of the Council.