Founding Members
Ashwini Deshpande is Professor of Economics and the Founding Director of Centre for Economic Data and Analysis (CEDA) at Ashoka University. Her Ph.D. and early publications have been on the international debt crisis of the 1980s. Subsequently, she has been working on the economics of discrimination and affirmative action, with a focus on caste and gender in India...
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Director
ashwini.deshpande@ashoka.edu.in
Anisha Sharma is Assistant Professor of Economics and the Founding Member of Centre For Economic Data & Analysis. Her research interests are in the area of development economics, labour economics, firms, and public policy. Anisha completed her doctorate in Economics from the University of Oxford in 2016...
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Founding Member
anisha.sharma@ashoka.edu.in
Sabyasachi Das is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Ashoka University. He has received his Ph.D. in Economics at Yale University. Prior to joining Ashoka he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi. His fields of specialization are political economy, public economics, and applied microeconomics...
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Founding Member
sabyasachi.das@ashoka.edu.inAdvisory Committee
Pulapre Balakrishnan is currently Professor of Economics at Ashoka University...
Pulapre Balakrishanan
Member, Advisory Committee
Bharat Ramaswami is a Professor of Economics at Ashoka University and prior to that he was at the Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi...
Bharat Ramaswami
Head, Department of Economics Member, Advisory Committee
(2019-20)
Ratul Lahkar has joined as Professor of Economics at Ashoka University in August...
Ratul Lahkar
Head, Department of Economics Member, Advisory Committee
(2020 onwards)
Ankur Bhardwaj
Editor : Content
ankur.bhardwaj@ashoka.edu.inHe was Associate Editor - Web at Business Standard. He used to write on politics, policy and current affairs at Business Standard....
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Mayukh Nair
Data Manager
nairmayukh@gmail.comMayukh serves as the Data Manager at the Centre for Economic Data & Analysis at Ashoka University....
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Kaustav Dutta
Deputy Manager
Kaustav serves as the Deputy Manager at the Centre for Economic Data & Analysis at Ashoka University....
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Ankur Bhardwaj
Editor : Content
ankur.bhardwaj@ashoka.edu.inAnkur Bhardwaj is Editor, CEDA. He was Associate Editor - Web at Business Standard. He used to write on politics, policy and current affairs at Business Standard. Prior to becoming a journalist, he served in different marketing roles in the telecom, e-commerce and media industries. He is the co-author of Note by Note: The India Story 1947-2017 (HarperCollins India, 2018). Besides politics and economy, he has a keen interest in Test cricket, cinema and music.
Mayukh Nair
Data Manager
nairmayukh@gmail.comMayukh serves as the Data Manager at the Centre for Economic Data & Analysis at Ashoka University. Mayukh graduated from Ashoka University in 2019 with a degree in Computer Science and interests in data analytics, user experience, machine learning and more recently, DevOps.
When not glued to the code editor or console, Mayukh enjoys travelling, reading non-fiction and long form articles, exploring new spots and restaurants, and quizzing.
Kaustav Dutta
Deputy Manager
Kaustav serves as the Deputy Manager at the Centre for Economic Data & Analysis at Ashoka University. Kaustav graduated from Ashoka University with a Master's degree in Economics and holds a Bachelor's degree in Engineering. He is particularly interested in machine learning, sports analytics and visualization.
He would never leave an opportunity to participate in music sessions and sports.
Interns
Ishaan Bansal
Summer 2020
Astha Wagle
Summer 2020
Daksh Walia
Summer 2020
