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R S Deshpande

Professor, Director

Ph.D. in Economics. Marathawada University, Aurangabad

Area of Specialisation : Agricultural Development Policy; International Trade in Agriculture and WTO; Agricultural Production and Resource Economics; Watershed Management and Irrigation; Econometrics & Applied Statistics

Email: deshpande@isec.ac.in

G K Karanth

Professor, CSSCD

Ph. D. (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi)

Area of Specialisation: Peasant Economy and Society; Caste and Social Stratification; Rural – Urban Linkages; Sociology of Development

Email: gkkaranth@isec.ac.in

M R Narayana

Professor, CESP

Ph.D. in Economics, University of Tsukuba, Japan

Area of Specialisation: Macro economics; Urban and Regional Economics; Applied Quantitative methods; Economics of Education Finance; Economics of Information technology and telecom services

Email: mrn@isec.ac.in

Satyanarayana Sangita

Professor, CPIGD

Ph.D.  (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 1983. ), Politics, Administration and Rural Development

Area of Specialisation: Development Politics (Political Regimes and Social Security); Governance and Development; Democracy and Inclusive Governance; Ethics in Public Life

Email: snsangita@isec.ac.in

K V Raju

Professor, CEENR

Ph.D. Department of Economics, Sardar Patel University, Gujarat, 1991.

Area of Specialisation: Policy and legal framework, Regional planning, Development economics, Natural resources management, Ecological economics

Email: kvraju@isec.ac.in

D Rajasekhar

Professor, CDD

Ph.D. in Economics from the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 1994.

Area of Specialisation: Decentralisation; Poverty Reduction; Development through and Interface among Local Organisations; Micro Finance; Social Security for Unorganised Workers and Child Labour.

Email: raja@isec.ac.in

K S James

Professor, PRC

Ph.D. in Population Studies Centre for Development Studies, Trivandrum, and Jawaharlal  Nehru University, New Delhi. 1995

Area of Specialisation: Formal Demography, Population and Development, Ageing Issues, Mortality and Health

Email: james@isec.ac.in

Meenakshi  Rajeev

Professor, CESP

Ph.D. Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata

Area of Specialisation: Banking and credit related issues; Issues relating to Development Economics (game theoretic modeling); Industrial Economics;
Labour Relations.

Email: meenakshi@isec.ac.in

S  Madheswaran

Professor,  CESP (on leave)

Ph.D. in Econometrics, Department of Econometrics,
University of Madras (1996)

Area of Specialisation: Economics of Labour; Economics of Education;
Environmental Economics; Applied Econometrics

Email: madhes@isec.ac.in

Supriya RoyChowdhury

Professor,  CPIGD

Ph.D., Department of Politics, Princeton University, 1992

Area of Specialisation: Globalization and labour; urban poverty; social movements; comparative development

Email: supriya@isec.ac.in

Parmod  Kumar

Professor, ADRTC

Ph.D. in Economics from Centre for the Studies of Regional Development,
JNU, New Delhi, 1997.

Area of Specialisation: Agriculture and Allied Activities; Agro Processing; Rural Development

Email: pkumar@isec.ac.in

Siddarth Swaminathan

Professor,  RKHegde Chair

Ph.D. in Political Science Claremont Graduate University, 2001

Area of Specialisation: Comparative Political Economy; World Politics

Email: siddharth@isec.ac.in

Manohar Yadav

Professor, CSSCD

Ph.D. in Anthropology from Karnataka University, Dharwad, 1989

Area of Specialisation: Caste; Untouchabality; Dalit and Development related studies.

Email: yadav@isec.ac.in

M J Bhende

Adjunct Professor, ADRTC

Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics, Agriculture collage, University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore, India, 1992

Area of Specialisation: Agricultural Production and Resource economics; Food security; Agricultural Credit; Risk / Uncertainty and Insurance; Watershed management

Email: bhende@isec.ac.in

N Sivanna

Adjunct Professor, RK Hegde Chair

Ph.D. in Development Studies, Institute for Social and Economic Change through Mysore University, 1989

Area of Specialisation: Decentralisation; Rural and Urban Governance;
Development Administration; and Bureaucracy and Development.

Email: sivanna@isec.ac.in

Anand Inbanathan

Associate Professor, CSSCD

Ph.D. in Sociology, Jawaharlal Nehru University, 1986

Area of Specialisation: Decentralization and politics, civil society and democracy; Occupation and health, quality of life; Migration and adaptation

Email: anand@isec.ac.in

K Gayithri

Associate Professor, CESP

Ph.D. in Public Finance: University of Mysore (Through ISEC) 1990

Area of Specialisation: Public Economics: Expenditure Planning and Management: Fiscal Policy analysis, Program Performance Budgeting’ and Measurement of Performance; Industrial Economics: Industrial Policy, Industrial Subsidies and Tax concessions

Email: gayithri@isec.ac.in

T S Syamala  

Associate Professor, PRC

Ph.D. in Population Studies, International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), Mumbai, 1994

Area of Specialisation: Population and Health, Women and child Health

Email: syamala@isec.ac.in

C M Lakshmana

Associate Professor, PRC

Ph.d.  Bangalore University, 1998

Area of Specialisation: Population and Environmental Issues; Population
Geography; Environmental Health; Gender and Developmental Issues

Email: lakshmana@isec.ac.in

R Mutharayappa

Associate Professor, PRC

Ph.D. in Anthropology, University of Mysore, 1993

Area of Specialisation: Tribal Demography; Fertility and Family Planning; Health Delivery; Indigenous Health Care System

Email: mutharayappa@isec.ac.in

Syed Ajmal Pasha

Associate Professor, CEENR (on leave)

Ph.D. in Economics

Area of Specialisation: Resource / Environmental Economics; Agricultural Economics, Forest Use and Management; Livestock Economy; Common Property Resources (CPRs), and Rural Development

Email: pasha@isec.ac.in

I Maruthi,

Associate Professor, ADRTC

Ph.D. in Sociology, University of Poona, 1994

Area of Specialisation: Rural Sociology

Email: maruthi@isec.ac.in

Veerasekharappa

Associate Professor, CESP

Ph.D. in Economics from Osmania University

Area of Specialisation: Development Economics - Institutional Finance
and Labour Economics

Email: vsa@isec.ac.in

Krishna Raj

Associate Professor, CESP

Ph.D. in Economics (Environmental Economics), University of Mysore, Mysore, 2005

Area of Specialisation: Environmental and Natural Resource Economics; Natural Resource Conservation and Management: Forest and Water; Urban Water Supply and Management (Bangalore City); Ecotourism in Protected Areas (Economic Valuation of biodiversity); TRIPs, Biodiversity Conservation and Traditional Environmental Knowledge; Deforestation and Climate Change

Email: krishnaraj@isec.ac.in

Sunil Nautiyal

Associate Professor, CEENR

Ph.D. in Botany (Ecology), G.B. Pant Institute of Himalayan Environment and Development,  H.N.B. Garhwal University, Srinagar – Garhwal

Area of Specialisation: Natural resource management and conservation; Production system analysis; Protected Area Management;  Ecological Modeling;  GIS and Remote Sensing in landscape analysis; Climate Change and Socio-Ecological Development

Email: sunil@isec.ac.in

M Devendra Babu

Associate Professor, CDD

Ph.D. in Economics, Bangalore University

Area of Specialisation: Rural Decentralisation; Rural Development
and Public Economics

Email: devendra@isec.ac.in

Elumalai Kannan

Associate Professor, ADRTC

Ph.D. in Economics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

Area of Specialisation: International trade and Agriculture; Livestock Economics; Non-Farm Sector; Institutional Economics; Natural Resource Management

Email: elumalaik@isec.ac.in

K S Umamani

Associate Professor, CHRD

Ph.D. in Social Demography from Bangalore University in 1998

Area of Specialisation: Maternal And Child Health Nuptiality

Email: umamani@isec.ac.in

Padma Sarangapani
Associate Professor, CHRD
Ph.D. in Education from University of Delhi
Area of Specialisation:  Quality and Education/Education Policy, Childhood and Learning, Elementary Education, Teachers and Teacher Education, Curriculum Studies, Indigenous Knowledges and Schooling, Qualitative Methods.
Email: psarangapani@isec.ac.in
Ramappa K.B.
Associate Professor, ADRTC
Ph.D.
in Agribusiness Management from UAS, Dharwad
Email: ramappa@isec.ac.in
 

B P Vani

Assistant Professor, CESP

M.Sc. (Statistics), Bangalore University.

Area of Specialisation: Poverty and Income Distribution

Email: vani@isec.ac.in

T N Bhat

Assistant Professor, PRC

Ph.D. in Sociology from Osmania University, Hyderabad in 2003

Area of Specialisation: Fertility and Women’s Empowerment; Reproductive

and Child Health; Large Scale Demographic Surveys

Email: tnbhat@isec.ac.in

V Anil Kumar

Assistant Professor, CPIGD

Ph.D. University of Delhi

Area of Specialisation:  Public Policy, Policy Processes; Social, Political Theory; Federalism, Devolution; Agrarian Change

Email: anilkumar@isec.ac.in

Lekha Subaiya

Assistant Professor, PRC

Ph.D. in Sociology, University of Maryland, College Park

Area of Specialisation: Demography and Stratification

Email: Lekha@isec.ac.in

Dhananjay W Bansod

Assistant Professor, PRC (on leave)

Ph.D. in Population Studies : International Institute for Population Sciences, Mumbai, 2007

Area of Specialisation: Ageing; Public Health; Large Scale Survey Research

Email: dhananjay@isec.ac.in

S Manasi

Assistant Professor, CEENR

Ph.D. Department of Economics, Mysore University, 2002

Area of Specialisation: Water resource management, Solid waste management

Email:  manasi@isec.ac.in

M Lingaraju

Assistant Professor, CHRD

Ph.D. in Development Studies, Institute of Development Studies (IDS), University of Mysore, 2004

Area of Specialisation: Migration and Urbanization Studies; Population, Health and Health related Studies

Email:  lingaraju@isec.ac.in

Komol Singha

Assistant Professor, ADRTC

Ph.D. in  Development Economics, Manipur University (Imphal)

Area of Specialisation: Development Economics - Institutional Economics,
Rural Development, Social Capital, Human Capital, Development Issues of North East India

Email: komol@isec.ac.in

Marchang Reimeingam
Assistant Professor, CSSCD
Ph.D.
in Economics, CSRD, JNU, New Delhi
Area of Specialisation: Labour, migration, education, economy and development
Email: reimeingam@isec.ac.in
Sobin George
Assistant Professor, CSSCD
Ph.D.
Centre of Social Medicine and Community Health, Jawaharlal Nehru
University, New Delhi
Area of Specialisation: Work and Health; Sociology of Health; Marginalities and Development; Caste in the Modern Urban Spheres; Changing Labour Relations and Social Organisation; The Middle Class

Email: sobin@isec.ac.in
A V Manjunatha
Assistant Professor, ADRTC
Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics, Justus Liebig University, Germany
Area of Specialisation: Efficiency, Equity and Sustainability issues in Natural resources; Agricultural Water Management and Water Markets; Agricultural Markets; Rural Development; Energy and Climate Change

Email: manjunath@isec.ac.in
Malini Laxminarayan Tantri
Assistant Professor, CESP
Ph. D in Economics, Institute for Social and Economic Change (ISEC),  through Mysore University
Area of Specialisation: Trade and development: Trade policy and trade facilitation; India China studies; Special Economic Zones; Agricultural trade

Email: malini@isec.ac.in
 
M Balasubramanian
Assistant Professor, CEENR
Ph.D
in Environmental Economics from Madurai Kamaraj University
Area of Specialisation:
Green Accounting, Natural Resource and Environmental Economics, Climate Change, Solid Waste Management, Environmental Policy, Sustainable Development and Sustainability, Urban Ecology

Email:
balasubramanian@isec.ac.in
Barun Deb Pal
Assistant Professor, CESP
Ph.D. in Economics from Jadavpur University, Kolkota
Area of Specialisation: Macroeconomic policy impact analysis with the help of Input-Output modeling, CGE Modelling and econometrics application;  Climate Change Policy Analysis; Land Use Planning model for Agriculture.
Email: bdpal@isec.ac.in
Indrajit Bairagya
Assistant Professor, CHRD
Ph.D. in Economics (2012), Institute for Social and Economic Change (ISEC), Bangalore, India.
Area of Specialisation: Informal sector and informal employment, Economics of education, Social cost-benefit analysis
Email: indrajit@isec.ac.in

 

 
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