Dr Mausumi Das is currently a faculty member at the Department of Economics, Delhi School of Economics, DSE. She has previously taught at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and the Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi, and also held a visiting faculty position at the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) Delhi Centre. Her area of specialisation is economic growth and development. She has published research articles in various reputed international journals, such as Journal of Economic Growth and Journal of Development Economics. She received her Ph.D. from the Jawaharlal Nehru University.
Raghuram Rajan is the Katherine Dusak Miller Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He was the 23rd Governor of the Reserve Bank of India between September 2013 and September 2016. Prior to that, he was the Chief Economist at the International Monetary Fund from 2003 to 2006, the youngest person ever to hold the position. His research is broadly on the role of institutions, especially financial institutions, in fostering economic development. He is an electrical engineering graduate from the Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi. He earned his M.B.A. from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, and his Ph.D. from MIT.
Arokiasamy Perianayagam is a Professor at NCAER leading research programmes in the area of health and health economics.
He has been a Visiting Professor at the Centre for Policy Studies, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay, and before that, he was Professor and Head of the Department of Studies at the International Institute for Population Sciences, Mumbai where he served as faculty for over three decades. His subject areas of teaching and research expertise cover demography, public health and health economics, ageing, and global health, development studies and large-scale health survey research. He has supervised 23 PhD research students, published over 100 research papers in top-rated international peer-reviewed journals in the subject areas of demography, public health, epidemiology, and social sciences. As the lead Principal Investigator, he directed several nationwide surveys and pioneering research studies.
He has served as a member of different ministries (MoHFW, MoSJE, ICMR, NITI Aayog), INSA, US-NAS, SNSF, UK-NSO and many national and international collaborative consortium. He was also advisor/international consultant in institutions such as WHO, UNFPA, HSPH, University of Southern California etc. He was educated at the University of Madras, Annamalai University and received postdoctoral research training at the London School of Economics (LSE).
Neeraj Kumar is an IT Helpdesk Executive at NCAER. As an IT professional, he is skilled in hardware and networking. His role entails maintaining technical and administrative procedures, providing technical support on IT infrastructure/incident management and ensuring effective technical solutions. He has a Diploma in Computers and Networking, and is currently pursuing a BCA/MCA Integrated Programme at the Indira Gandhi National Open University.
