Mehta Family School of Sustainability
Indian Institute of Technology Indore
Indian Institute of Technology Indore
Thesis: Effect of Climatic Factors on Agricultural Productivity and Food Security in India: An Econometric Analysis
Dr. Ajay Kumar is an accomplished researcher in the fields of climate change, agricultural economics, and food security. His work explores the complex interactions between climatic variables and agricultural productivity, with a focus on sustainable development in rural India. He has published extensively in reputed international journals, contributing valuable insights through econometric and statistical modeling approaches.
Thesis: Impact of labour market regulations on industrial performance: evidence from Indian manufacturing sector
Dr. Sofi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at the Islamic University of Science and Technology (IUST), Awantipora, Jammu and Kashmir. He earned his PhD in Economics from IIT Indore. His research interests encompass industrial economics, econometrics, and labour economics. His scholarly contributions are reflected in his publications, which have garnered citations in the academic community.
Dr. Joshi is an experienced policy and research consultant with interdisciplinary expertise spanning climate policy, energy transitions, and sustainability economics. She has worked with leading international and national organizations including the Regulatory Assistance Project (USA), Cambridge Econometrics (UK), and the World Resources Institute (India). In addition to her consultancy work, she is a founder member of Smart iFab Tech, a startup incubated under the CIIE–IR Office at IIT Indore.
Thesis: Examining the Impact of Financial Inclusion on Poverty and Human Development: An Empirical Evidence from the Post-liberalized Indian States
Dr. Barik is an Assistant Professor at the ICFAI Business School, Hyderabad. His doctoral research examined the role of financial inclusion in reducing poverty and enhancing human development outcomes across post-liberalization Indian states. His academic interests lie in development economics, financial inclusion, and applied econometrics.
Thesis: The emotional profile and processing of emotional stimuli among media multitaskers
Shanu is currently a Marie Sklodowska Curie Actions (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellow with the Interdisciplinary Research Team on Internet and Society (IRTIS) at Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic. She serves as a Copy Editor for the ISSBD Bulletin and is a former SRA COVID-19 Research Fellow with the Society for Research in Adolescence, USA. She is also a Fulbright-Nehru Research Alumna at the University of Michigan, USA.
Thesis: Labour Market Discrimination and Employment Probabilities in the Indian Manufacturing Sector
Dr. Bairwa holds the position of Assistant Professor of Economics at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Amritsar. His doctoral work focused on employment dynamics and discrimination within the manufacturing landscape of India.
Thesis: Differential impact of food price changes on the welfare of farm households in India
Dr. Juhee Singh Verma is Assistant Professor of Food & Agribusiness Management at Prestige University, Indore. She earned her Ph.D. from I.I.T. Indore, where her dissertation examined the unequal impacts of food price shocks on the welfare of farm households. Her research interest areas are public policy, agripreneurship, and sustainable food value chains.
Thesis: Prediction of impact of climate change on agricultural production through land suitability analysis
Dr. Bushra Praveen completed her PhD in Economics at IIT Indore with a focus on climate change and agriculture using Remote Sensing and GIS. Her work is published in journals such as Nature, Elsevier, and Springer. She also holds a PG Diploma in Natural Hazard and Disaster Risk Management from IIRS, ISRO.
Thesis: Vulnerability of People of Madhya Pradesh to Climate Change: A Meso-level Analysis
Dr. George is a development economist with research interests centered on climate vulnerability, regional development, and socio-economic resilience. Her academic work emphasizes meso-level analysis of climate change impacts and vulnerability assessment, particularly in the Indian context.
Dr. Tiwari is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Madhav Institute of Technology & Science, Gwalior, where he also serves as the In-Charge of the Startup Cell and Entrepreneurship Development Cell. His research interests lie at the intersection of technology and society, focusing on smart cities as socio-technical systems, the politics of solid waste management and urban infrastructure, and science, technology, and society studies.
Dr. Patri is an Assistant Professor-II of Economics at KIIT Deemed to be University, Bhubaneswar. His research interests include climate change, disaster management, environmental economics, econometrics, and health and sanitation. A recipient of the Climate Reporting Fellowship (YKA, India), he has published in reputed indexed journals including International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction (ABDC-A, Q1).
Dr. Kanak Singh is a Research Fellow at Climate Tech Navigators LLC, USA, where she works on the development of indicator systems for climate vulnerability assessment and management. Her research focuses on improving the representation of environmental and social dimensions of global change by integrating local and indigenous knowledge systems.