Abdul Kalam Azad is a PhD candidate with Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and working on citizenship crisis in Assam.
Anirban Bhattacharya is a senior researcher and is Research Head at the Sankaran Unit for Research on Exclusion & Inequality housed at Centre for Equity Studies. He completed his PhD in Jawaharlal Nehru University in history. He identifies himself as an activist, author and researcher.
Atul Sood teaches at the Centre for the Study of Regional Development, Jawaharlal Nehru University.
Barbara Harriss-White: Originally an agricultural economist, she drove to India from Cambridge 50 years ago and has been teaching and studying it through fieldwork ever since. She is Emeritus Professor of Development Studies and Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford University. Having worked on food, markets, informality and deprivation, in retirement she watches the economy as a waste-producing system.
Dinesh Mohan is Honorary Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. He is the recipient of the Distinguished Career Award from the University of Delaware, Distinguished Alumnus Award of Indian Institute of Technology Bombay and the American Public Health Association International Distinguished Career Award.
Dipa Sinha teaches Economics at Ambedkar University Delhi. She is associated with the Right to Food campaign.
Harsh Mander is a human rights and peace worker, writer, columnist, researcher and teacher, works with survivors of mass violence, hunger, homeless persons and street children. He is the Director of the Centre for Equity Studies and is the editor of the annual India Exclusion Report.
Indrajit Roy studies the critical politics of global development. His research and teaching focuses on the role of historically marginalised agents in global development, and the ways in which they negotiate the global, national and local structures of oppression and subordination. Roy’s work shapes the emerging scholarship that aims to diversify and decolonise the study of development.
Malini Chakravarty is the Additional Coordinator- Research at Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability (CBGA), New Delhi. After completing her Masters in Economics from Delhi School of Economics, she got her M.Phil. degree from the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Her areas of interest include macroeconomics, public finance and equity, international trade and development economics. She has published several articles in peer-reviewed journals, media outlets as well as contributed chapters in books.
Navsharan Singh is an academic and has a background in women’s rights, human rights and social and cultural movements in India. Her academic and research interests include understanding impunity for sexual violence and communal and hate violence, Partition studies, labour rights, and Dalit land rights.
Paaritosh Nath is a post doctoral fellow at the Centre for Sustainable Employment, Azim Premji University, Bengaluru. He has a PhD from the Centre for the Study of Regional Development, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi. Prior to joining CSE, he was working as a research fellow with the Karwan-e-Mohabbat. His areas of interest include trajectory of growth of industrial labour markets in India, impact of labour laws on employment and processes of skill acquisition and upgradation. School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University.
Shantha Sinha: Former Chairperson National Commission for Protection of Child Rights Government of India, retired as a Professor in the Department of Political Science in the University of Hyderabad. She is the founder Secretary Trustee of MVFoundation an NGO that contributed to getting over one million children from out of child labor and enrolled them into schools.
Usman Jawed is trained in Sociology and is interested in political economy of development. He is invested in the pursuit of just and demicratic alternatives to the present economic system. He has been the IXR coordinator for the year 2018-19.