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Srijit Mishra

University of Hyderabad, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Nabakrushna Choudhury Centre for Development Studies

ORCID iD 0000-0002-6429-8198
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Srijit Mishra, PhD (Econ, CDS/JNU) researches and teaches development-related issues from a people-centric perspective. He is a Professor at the School of Economics in the University of Hyderabad. He has been conferred with the maiden Dr VKRV Rao Fellow Award 2025 by The Applied Economics Society. His is a member of the Technical Expert Group for the first-ever Household Income Survey by the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, Government of India. Prior to his joining the University of Hyderabad, he was a Professor at the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR), a deemed to be university and advanced research institute established by the Reserve Bank of India. At IGIDR, he was the Dean of Academic and Student Affairs from Oct 2021 to Sep 2023. During his Deanship, IGIDR was for the first time featured in QS World University Ranking in Subjects for Development Studies and was ranked 100-120. He was formerly the Director of Nabakrushna Choudhury Centre for Development Studies (NCDS), an Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) institute set-up in collaboration with the Government of Odisha (11 Sep 2015-10 Sep 2020) where he was instrumental in spearheading the Odisha Millets Mission 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 the Vasantrao Naik Sheti Swavlamban Mission and other policy outcomes, including the deliberations leading to debt waiver. In short, he researches and teaches on development-related issues that intertwine between social philosophy, analytical measurement and applied development. 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 of Indian Studies 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 MPhil/PhD 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. He is married to Nandini and they both have been blessed with a daughter, Nerika.

Employment

  • University of Hyderabad Professor
    2024 - Present
  • Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research Professor
    2015 - 2024
  • Nabakrushna Choudhury Centre for Development Studies Director and Professor
    2015 - 2020
  • National Chengchi University ICCR Chair Professor of Indian Studies
    2015 - 2015
  • Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research Professor (Associate, Assistant and Visiting Assistant)
    2002 - 2015
  • Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics Lecturer
    2001 - 2002
  • Nabakrushna Choudhury Centre for Development Studies Research Associate (Lecturer scale)
    1997 - 2001

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Publications (74)