About Director

Professor Ajit Sinha joined ADRI as its Director on February 8, 2024. Professor Sinha studied Economics at Delhi School of Economics and has a Ph.D. from State University of New York at Buffalo. He started his career as lecturer of economics at the University of Delhi in 1982, and went on to teach economics at State University of New York at Buffalo, York University, Canada and The University of Newcastle, Australia. In 1999, he joined LBS National Academy of Administration, Mussoorie as Professor of Economics and Member Academic Council for two years. Since then, he has been Professor (and also Director) at Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Maître des Conférences Associé at Collège de France, Paris, Visiting Professor at Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR) in Mumbai, University of Paris 1 (Sorbonne), University of Trento, Italy. Professor at Azim Premji University in Bangalore and the founding Chair, Research and Faculty Recruitment at the Thapar School of Liberal Arts and Sciences in Patiala. He has also been Visiting Fellow at the Delhi School of Economics, JNU, Bombay University and Visiting Scholar at Faculty of Economics and Politics, University of Cambridge, UK. He has also served as a member of several committees of Indian Council for Social Science Research (ICSSR). Professor Sinha has authored three books and edited/co-edited 4 volumes along with more than 60 research papers in leading international journals, edited books and encyclopaedias.