Sunil Mani

About

Professor Sunil Mani is a former director, professor, and Reserve Bank of India Chair at the Centre. Earlier, he was a faculty member and head of graduate studies at the United Nations University-Institute for New Technologies (now known as UNU-MERIT) at Maastricht in the Netherlands. He obtained his M. Phil and PhD in Economics from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He has done postdoctoral research at the University of Oxford on a Ford Foundation, New York fellowship. He has held visiting professorships at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Tokyo, Japan; Bocconi University, Milan, Italy; the University of Toulouse Jean Jaures, Toulouse, France; and the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta.
Further, he serves on the editorial boards of two international journals, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics (Elsevier) and the International Journal of Technology and Globalization (Inderscience). According to SCOPUS and Google Scholar, his H-index is 10 and 25, respectively. A detailed list of his publications can be found at https://cds.edu/faculty/prof-sunil-mani/

Employment

• Centre for Development Studies Director and RBI Professor
  2004 - 2023

Education

• Jawaharlal Nehru University PhD
  1986 - 1991

Projects & Funding

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Publications (64)

• Space economy of India, its impact on the rest of the economy
  Space Policy 2025 DOI: 10.1016/j.spacepol.2025.101692
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• Building India’s semiconductor ecosystem: policies, capabilities, and challenges in achieving technological self-reliance
  Science and Public Policy 2025 DOI: 10.1093/scipol/scaf094
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• The Impact of New Technology on Employment in India’s Manufacturing Industry: Examining the Diffusion of Multi-Purpose Industrial Robots
  The Indian Journal of Labour Economics 2025 DOI: 10.1007/s41027-024-00525-1
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• Diffusion of digital payments in India, 2011–2012 through 2020–2021: role of its sectoral system of innovation
  Asian Journal of Technology Innovation 2023 DOI: 10.1080/19761597.2022.2125883
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• India's Space Economy, 2011–12 to 2020–21: Its Size and Structure
  Space Policy 2023 DOI: 10.1016/j.spacepol.2022.101524
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• The Role of Industrial Policy in Market-friendly Economies Case of COVID-19 Vaccine R&D and Its Manufacturing in India and Its Contrast with the US-II
  Economic and Political Weekly 2022
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• The Role of Industrial Policy in Market-friendly Economies Case of COVID-19 Vaccine R&D and Its Manufacturing in India and the US - I
  Economic and Political Weekly 2022
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• India’s patenting record since TRIPS compliance of her patent regime
  Asian Journal of Technology Innovation 2021 DOI: 10.1080/19761597.2020.1829977
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• India's Economy and Society
  Springer 2021
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• The US–Ireland–India in the catch-up cycles in IT services: MNCs, indigenous capabilities and the roles of macroeconomic variables
  Eurasian Business Review 2021 DOI: 10.1007/s40821-020-00177-3
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