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DEVESH KAPUR
Director Asia Programs Starr Foundation South Asia Studies
Professor
Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS)
Johns Hopkins University
1619 Massachusetts Avenue, Washington DC 20036 Phone:
202-663-5633 (office)
Email: [email protected]
EMPLOYMENT 2018-Present: Starr Foundation South Asia Studies
Professor and Director, Director Asia Programs, Paul H. Nitze
School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins
University
2015-2018: Professor of Political Science; Director, Center for
Advanced Study of India and Madan Lal Sobti Professor for the Study
of Contemporary India, University of Pennsylvania 2006-2015:
Associate Professor of Political Science; Director, Center for
Advanced Study of India and Madan Lal Sobti Professorship for the
Study of Contemporary India, University of Pennsylvania
2005-2006: Associate Professor of Government and Asian Studies,
University of Texas, Austin
2003-2005: Frederick Danziger Associate Professor of Government,
Harvard University
2001-2003: Associate Professor, Department of Government,
Harvard University
2000-2002: Director, Graduate Student Associates Program,
Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
1997-June 2001: Assistant Professor, Department of Government,
Harvard University 1990-97: Program Associate, Brookings
Institution, Washington D.C.
EDUCATION Ph.D., government, Woodrow Wilson School,
Princeton
University, 1994; M.S. chemical engineering, University of
Minnesota, 1985;
B.Tech, chemical engineering, India Institute of Technology
(BHU), Banaras, India, 1983
mailto:[email protected]
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AFFILIATIONS Non-Resident Fellow, Center for Global Development,
Washington D.C.
Brookings Institution-National Council of Applied Economic
Research (New Delhi), India Panel PUBLICATIONS Books Published
Devesh Kapur and Madhav Khosla (eds.) Regulation in India: Design,
Capacity, Performance London: Hart, 2019. Devesh Kapur and Milan
Vaishnav (eds). Costs of Democracy: Political Finance in India
Oxford University Press, 2018. Devesh Kapur, Pratap Bhanu Mehta and
Milan Vaishnav (eds.). Rethinking Public Institutions in India. New
Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2017. Devesh Kapur and Pratap Bhanu
Mehta (eds). Navigating the Labyrinth: Perspectives on India’s
Higher Education New Delhi: Orient Blackswan, 2017. Sanjoy
Chakravorty, Devesh Kapur and Nirvikar Singh. The Other One
Percent: Indians in American New York: Oxford University Press.
2017. Choice Outstanding Title 2017. Devesh Kapur, Chandra Bhan
Prasad, D. Shyam Babu. Defying the Odds: The Rise of Dalit
Entrepreneurs Random House, 2014. Devesh Kapur. Diaspora, Democracy
and Development: The Impact of International Migration from India
on India Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010. (Winner, 2012
Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Migration Section of ISA) Devesh Kapur
and John McHale. Give Us Your Best and Brightest: The Global Hunt
for Talent and Its Impact on the Developing World Washington D.C.:
Center for Global Development and Brookings Institution, 2005.
Devesh Kapur and Pratap Bhanu Mehta (eds.). Public Institutions in
India: Performance and Design New Delhi: Oxford University Press,
2005. Devesh Kapur, John Lewis and Richard Webb. The World Bank:
Its First Half Century. Volume 1: History. Washington D.C.: The
Brookings Institution, 1997. Devesh Kapur, John Lewis and Richard
Webb (eds.). The World Bank: Its First Half Century. Volume 2:
Perspectives Washington D.C.: The Brookings Institution, 1997.
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Manuscripts in Progress Markets and Social Institutions: Dalits
in a Liberalizing India. To be submitted for publication, Spring
2019. (with Shyam Babu and Chandrabhan Prasad) Engaging the World:
Indian Foreign Policy and the Future of Asia. To be submitted for
publication, Summer 2019. (with Rahul Sagar) Refereed Journal
Articles Guest Editor, special issue, “Strategy in Indian Thinking
and Practice.” India Review 17 (1), January-February 2018. (with
Rohan Mukherjee) “Introduction: Indian Security Strategy in Thought
and Practice,” India Review 17 (1): 1-11, January-February 2018.
(with Rohan Mukherjee) “Geoeconomics in Indian Strategy,” India
Review, 17 (1): 76-99, January-February 2018. (with Amit Ahuja)
"Six Puzzles in Indian Agriculture," India Policy Forum, 13:
185-217, 2017. (with Shoumitro Chatterjee) “The Quest for Global
Leadership: U.S.-China Competition in Multilateral Financial
Institutions,” China Quarterly of International Strategic Studies
3(2): 243-265, 2017. "(When) Do Anti-poverty Programs Reduce
Violence? India's Rural Employment Guarantee and Maoist Conflict,"
International Organization 71: 1-28, Summer 2017. (with Aditya
Dasgupta and Kishore Gawande) “How Will India’s Urban Future Affect
Social Identities?” Urbanisation 2(1): 1–8, 2017. “Addressing the
brain drain: A partial cosmopolitanism approach.” South African
Journal of Philosophy 36 (1): 45-57, 2017. “Renewable Resource
Shocks and Conflict in India’s Maoist Belt,” Journal of Conflict
Resolution, 61 (1): 140-172, 2017. (with Kishore Gawande and
Shanker Satyanath) “Social Protection in India: A Welfare State
sans Public Goods?” India Review, 14 (1): 73–90, 2015. (with
Prakirti Nangia)
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“Higher Education Reform in China and India: The Role of the
State,” Tsinghua Journal of Education (Chinese translation), 2015.
(with Elizabeth Perry) (Also Published as Harvard-Yenching Working
Paper, 2015) “The Political Impact of International Migration on
Sending Countries,” Annual Review of Political Science, 17:
479-502, 2014. “The Shift to Cash Transfers: Running Better but on
the Wrong Road?” Economic and Political Weekly, XLVI (21): 80-85,
May 2011. “Brain Drain or Brain Bank? The Impact of Skilled
Emigration on Poor-Country Innovation,” Journal of Urban Economics,
69: 43–55, 2011. (with Ajay Agrawal, John McHale and Alexander
Oettl) “The Middle-Class in India: A Social Formation or a
Political Actor?” Political Power and Social Theory, 21: 215–240,
2010. “Can the Privatization of Foreign Aid Enhance
Accountability,” Journal of International Law and Politics, 42:
1143-1180, 2010 (with Dennis Whittle). “Rethinking Inequality:
Dalits in Uttar Pradesh in the Market Reform Era,” Economic and
Political Weekly, XLV (35): 39-49, 2010. (with Chandra Bhan Prasad,
Lant Pritchett and D. Shyam Babu) “International Migration and the
World Income Distribution,” Journal of International Development,
21: 1-9, 2009. (with John McHale) Guest Editor, special issue,
“Future Issues of India’s Foreign Policy.” India Review 8 (3),
2009. “Introduction: Future Issues of India’s Foreign Policy,” 8
(3): India Review 8 (3): 200-208, 2009. “Public Opinion and Indian
Foreign Policy,” India Review, 8 (3): 286-305, 2009. “Climate
Change: India’s Negotiating Options,” Economic and Political
Weekly, 44 (31): 34-42. (with Radhika Khosla and Pratap Bhanu
Mehta). “More on Direct Cash Transfers,” Economic and Political
Weekly, 43 (47): 85-87, November 22, 2008. (with Partha
Mukhopadhyay and Arvind Subramanian).
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“The Fiscal Impact of High Skilled Emigration: Flows of Indians
to the U.S.,” Journal of Development Economics, 88(1): 32-44, 2009.
(with Mihir A. Desai, John McHale and Keith Rogers) “How Do Spatial
and Social Proximity Influence Knowledge Flows? Evidence from
Patent Data,” Journal of Urban Economics, 64: 258-269, 2008. (with
Ajay Agrawal and John McHale) “Mortgaging the Future? Indian Higher
Education,” Brookings-NCAER India Policy Forum, 4: 101-157, 2008.
(with Pratap Bhanu Mehta) “The Case for Direct Cash Transfers to
the Poor,” Economic and Political Weekly, 43 (15): 37-43, April 12,
2008. (with Partha Mukhopadhyay and Arvind Subramanian) “Improving
Data Quality: Actors, Incentives and Capabilities,” Political
Analysis, 15:365–386, 2007. (with Yoshiko Herrera) “Beyond the
IMF,” Economic and Political Weekly, 42 (7): 581-589, 2007. (with
Richard Webb). “What’s Wrong with Plan B? International Migration
as an Alternative to Development Assistance,” Brookings Trade
Forum, Washington D.C.: The Brookings Institution, 2006: 137-172.
(with John McHale) “Should a Cosmopolitan Worry about the ‘Brain
Drain’?” Ethics & International Affairs, 20 (3): 305-320, Fall
2006. (with John McHale) “The IMF and Democratic Governance,”
Journal of Democracy, 16 (1): 89-102, January 2005. (with Moises
Naim) “Ideas and Economic Reforms in India: The Role of
International Migration and the Indian Diaspora,” India Review, 3
(4) 364-384, November 2004.
“Sharing the Spoils: Taxing International Human Capital Flows,”
International Tax and Public Finance, 11: 663-693, 2004. (with
Mihir Desai and John McHale) “Large foreign currency reserves:
insurance for domestic weaknesses and external uncertainties?”
Economic and Political Weekly, 38 (11): 1047-1053,2003. (with Urjit
Patel) “The Indian diaspora as a strategic asset,” Economic and
Political Weekly, 38 (5): 445-44, 2003. “The Causes and
Consequences of India’s IT Boom,” India Review, 1 (2): 91-110,
April 2002.
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“The Common Pool Dilemma of Global Public Goods: Lessons from
the World Bank’s Net Income and Reserves,” World Development, 30
(3): 337-354, March 2002. “Diasporas and Technology Transfer,”
Journal of Human Development, 2 (2): 265-286, 2001. “India’s
Emerging Competitive Advantage in Services,” The Academy of
Management Executive, 15 (2): 20-31, May 2001. (with Ravi
Ramamurti) “Expansive Agendas and Weak Instruments: Governance
Related Conditionalities of International Financial Institutions,”
Policy Reform, 4 (3): 207-241, 2001. “India – 1999 Review,” Asia
Survey, 195-207, January-February 2000. “The World Bank’s Net
Income and Reserves,” in International Monetary and Financial
Issues for the 1990s, New York and Geneva, UNCTAD, Vol. X, 1999.
“India – 1998 Review,” Asia Survey, January-February 1999 (with
Pratap Bhanu Mehta). “The State in a Changing World: A Critique of
the 1997 World Development Report,” International Monetary and
Financial Issues for the 1990s, New York and Geneva: UNCTAD, Vol.
IX, 1998. “The Evolution of the Multilateral Development Banks,” in
International Monetary and Financial Issues for the 1990s, Volume
IV, (New York: United Nations, 1994), 229-250 (with Richard Webb);
reprinted in G.K. Helleiner (ed.), The International Monetary and
Financial System, London: Macmillan Press Ltd., 1996. “Updating
Country Study: Thailand’s needs and prospects in the 1990s,” World
Development, 18:1363-78, October 1990 (with John Lewis).
“Decentralization in Nepal: a view from the Districts,”
International Review of Administrative Sciences, 55, September
1989. (with Henry Bienen, Jim Parks and Jeff Riedinger)
“Decentralization in Nepal,” World Development, 18:61-75, January
1990. (with Henry Bienen, Jim Parks and Jeff Riedinger). “MOCVD in
Inverted Stagnation Point Flow Reactors,” Journal of Crystal
Growth, 77, 1986. (with Peter Lee, Don Mckenna, and Klavs
Jensen)
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Refereed Book Chapters “Higher Education Reform in China and
India: The Role of the State,” in Prasenjit Duara and Elizabeth
Perry (ed.) Beyond Regimes. China and India Compared. Cambridge:
Harvard University Press, 2018. (with Elizabeth Perry) “Social
Change in NCR: How Urbanization Affects Attitudes,” in Sanjoy
Chakravorty and Neelanjan Sircar, Colossus: Anatomy of Delhi New
Delhi: Oxford University Press (forthcoming). (with Sumitra
Badrinathan) “The Importance of Being Middle Class in India,” in
Axel Harneit-Sievers and Dawid Danilo Bartelt (ed.), The New Middle
Class in India and Brazil – Green Perspectives? New Delhi: Academic
Foundation 2017. (with Neelanjan Sircar and Milan Vaishnav).
“Liberalization sans liberalism: The Control Raj and the Perils of
Ideology and Rents in Higher Education,” in Rakesh Mohan (ed.),
India Transformed: 25 Years of Economic Reforms, New Delhi: Penguin
Random House, 2017. “The Supreme Court and Private Higher
Education: Litigation Patterns and Judicial Trends,” in Devesh
Kapur and Pratap Bhanu Mehta (eds.), Indian Higher Education. New
Delhi: Orient Blackswan, 2017. (with Madhav Khosla) "Strengthening
the Japan-India Economic Partnership,” in Rohan Mukherjee and
Anthony Yazaki (eds), Poised for Partnership. Deeping India-Japan
Relations in the Asian Century, Oxford University Press, 2016.
(with Rohit Lamba) “Public Opinion,” in David M. Malone, Srinath
Raghavan and C. Raja Mohan (eds.), Oxford Handbook on Indian
Foreign Policy, 2015. “Strengthening the Rule of Law,” in Bibek
Debroy, Ashley J. Tellis, and Reece Trevor (eds.), Getting India
Back on Track Washington D.C.: Carnegie Endowment, 2014. (with
Milan Vaishnav) “India and the World Economy,” in Delia Davin and
Barbara Harriss-White, eds., China-India: Paths of Economic and
Social Development London: The British Academy, 2014. (with Vijay
Joshi) “India’s Economic Development,” in Bruce Currie-Alder, Ravi
Kanbur, David M. Malone, and Rohinton Medhora, eds. International
Development: Ideas, Experiences and Prospects, London: Oxford
University Press, 2014: 714-731.
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“Geoeconomics versus Geopolitics: Implications for Asia,” in I.
Kaur and N. Singh ed., Handbook of the Economics of the Pacific
Rim, Oxford University Press, 2014: 290-313. (with Manik Suri)
“India and International Financial Institutions and Arrangements,”
in Bruce Jones, Pratap Bhanu Mehta and W. P. S. Sidhu, eds.,
Shaping the Emerging World. India and the Multilateral Order,
Brookings Press, 2013: 237-259.
“International Migration and Reforms in India: From Political
and Bureaucratic Leadership to Social Entrepreneurs,”in Yevgeny
Kuznetsov, ed. How Can Talent Abroad Induce Development at Home?
Towards a Pragmatic Diaspora Agenda, Washington D.C.: Migration
Policy Institute, 2013: 67-100. (with Neha Gupta) “International
Migration and its Consequences for India,” in Atul Kohli and Prerna
Singh (eds.), Routledge Handbook of Indian Politics, 2012: 362-369.
“Economic Effects of Emigration on Sending Countries,” in Marc
Rosenblum and Daniel Tichenor (ed.) Oxford Handbook of the Politics
of International Migration, Oxford University Press, 2012: 131-152.
(with John McHale) “Philanthropy, Self Interest and Accountability:
American Universities and Developing Countries,” in Thomas Pogge,
Patricia Illingworth and Leif Wenar (eds.), The Ethics of
Philanthropy, Oxford University Press, 2011: 264-285. “World Bank,”
entry in International Encyclopedia of Political Science ed. Badie,
Bertrand, Berg-Schlosser, Dirk, Morlino, Leonardo Sage, 2010.
“Indian Higher Education,” in Charles Clotfelter, ed. American
Universities in a Global Market, NBER, University of Chicago Press,
2010: 305-334. “Political Economy of the State,” in Neeraja Jayal
and Pratap Bhanu Mehta, ed. A Handbook of Indian Politics, New
Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2010: 443-457. “The Janus Face of
Diasporas,” in Barbara J. Merz, Lincoln Chen and Peter Geithner
(ed.), Diasporas and Development, Cambridge: Harvard University
Press, 2007: 89-118. “Higher Education,” in Kaushik Basu (ed.), in
The Oxford Companion to Economics in India, New Delhi: Oxford
University Press, 2007: 248-251. (with Pratap Bhanu Mehta) “The
Economic Impact of International Migration from India,” in Kaushik
Basu (ed.), in The Oxford Companion to Economics in India, New
Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2007: 313-316.
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“Trade, Interdependence, and Security in South Asia,” in Ashley
J. Tellis and Michael Wills (eds.), Strategic Asia 2006-07: Trade,
Interdependence, and Security Seattle and Washington D.C.: National
Bureau of Asian Research, 2006: 241-270. (with Kavita Iyengar) “The
Knowledge Bank,” in Rescuing the World Bank, Washington D.C.:
Center for Global Development, 2006: 159-170. “Outsourcing and
International Labor Mobility: A Political Economy Analysis,”, in F.
Foders and R.J. Langhammer (eds.), Labor Mobility and the World
Economy, Heidelberg: Springer Publishers, 2006: 187-204. (with
Sanjay Jain and Sharun Mukund) “Do As I Say Not As I Do: A Critique
of G-7 Proposals on Reforming the MDBs,” in Gustav Ranis, James
Vreeland, and Stephen Kosack (eds.), Globalization and the Nation
State: The Impact of the IMF and the World Bank, New York:
Routledge, 2006: 452-482. “Sojourns and Software: Internationally
Mobile Human Capital and High-Tech Industry Development in India,
Ireland and Israel,” in Ashish Arora and Alfonso Gambardella
(eds.), From Underdogs to Tigers: The Rise and Growth of the
Software Industry in Some Emerging Economies, Oxford University
Press, 2005: 236-274. (with John McHale) “Conditionality and its
Alternatives” in Ariel Buria (ed.), The IMF and World Bank at
Sixty, London: Anthem Press, 2005: 31-57. “Remittances: the New
Development Mantra?” in S.M. Maimbo and Dilip Ratha (eds.),
Remittances: Development Impact and Future Prospects, Washington
D.C.: The World Bank, 2005: 331-360. “Indian Diasporic
Philanthropy,”) in Peter Geithner, Lincoln Chen, and Paula D.
Johnson (eds.), Diaspora Philanthropy and Equitable Development:
Perspectives on China and India, Harvard University Press, 2004:
177-213. (with Ajay Mehta and R. Moon Dutt) “World Bank and
Poverty,” in Gwendolyn Mink and Alice O’Connor (eds.), Poverty in
the United States: An Encyclopedia of History, Politics, and
Policy, ABC-CLIO, November 2004. “Privatization in India: the
Imperatives and Consequences of Gradualism,” in T. N. Srinivasan
(ed.), India After a Decade of Economic Reforms: Retrospect and
Prospects, Stanford University Press. (with Ravi Ramamurti)
“Processes of Change in International Institutions,” in Deepak
Nayyar (ed.), Governing Globalization, Oxford University Press,
2002: 334-355.
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“India’s Nuclear Tests and Economic Sanctions,” in Damodar
Sardesai and Raju Thomas (eds.), Nuclear India in the 21st Century,
Palgrave, 2002. “The Changing Anatomy of Governance of the World
Bank,” in Jonathan R. Pincus and Jeffrey A. Winters (eds.),
Reinventing the World Bank, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2002,
54-75. "The Evolution of the Multilateral Development Banks," in G.
K.Helleiner (ed.) The International Monetary and Financial System
Macmillan Press, 1996, 347-382. (with Richard Webb) Journal
Articles in Progress “Measuring State Capacity in Rural India: What
can we learn from Block Development Offices Across India.” (with
Aditya Dasgupta) “The Political Economy of Bureaucratic Vacancies”
“When and how does Leadership matter?” “Is Politics a Business?”
Monographs “Reforming the International Financial System: Key
Issues,” in Global Financial Reform: How? Why? When? Ottawa:
North-South Institute, 2000. “The Indian Parliament As an
Institution of Accountability,” United Nations Research Institute
for Social Development, Democracy, Governance and Human Rights
Programme Paper, Number 23, January 2006. (with Pratap Bhanu Mehta)
“Beyond the ABCs: Higher Education and Developing Countries,” (with
Megan Crowley), Washington D.C.: Center for Global Development,
Working Paper Number 139, February 2008. Working Papers Devesh
Kapur and Arjun Raychaudhuri. “Rethinking the Financial Design of
the World Bank.” Washington D.C: Center for Global Development,
Working Paper 352, January 2014. Megha Aggarwal, Devesh Kapur,
Namrata Tognatta. “The Skills They Want: Aspirations of Students in
Emerging India.” CASI Working Paper 12-03. 2012.
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Randall Akee and Devesh Kapur. “Remittances and Rashomon.”
Washington DC: Center for Global Development Working Paper 285,
January 2012. Devesh Kapur and Milan Vaishnav. “Quid Pro Quo:
Builders, Politicians, and Election Finance in India.” Washington
DC: Center for Global Development Working Paper 276, December 2011.
Ajay Agrawal, Devesh Kapur and John McHale, “Brain Drain or Brain
Bank? The Impact of Skilled Emigration on Poor-Country Innovation,”
NBER Working Paper 14592, December 2008. Devesh Kapur and Richard
Webb, “Beyond the IMF,” Geneva: UNCTAD, Working Paper Number 43,
February 2007. Ajay Agrawal, Devesh Kapur and John McHale, “Birds
of a Feather - Better Together? Exploring the Optimal Spatial
Distribution of Ethnic Inventors,” NBER Working Paper 12823,
January 2007. Devesh Kapur and Richard Webb, “Beyond the IMF,”
Washington D.C.: Center for Global Development, Working Paper
Number 99, August 2006. Devesh Kapur and Pratap Bhanu Mehta.
“Indian higher education reform: from half-baked socialism to
half-baked capitalism,” Harvard University CID Working Paper #108,
September, 2004.
Devesh Kapur and Larry Hamlet. “Where You Sit Is Where You
Stand: The Behavioral Impact of Geography on International
Organizations,” Harvard University, WCFIA Working Paper, #04-06
September, 2004. Other Publications “Fraternity in the making of
the Indian nation” Seminar 701: 32-36, January 2018. "Muslim
Anxieties and India’s Future," Project Syndicate, March 25, 2017
“Diasporas’ Impacts on Economic Development,” Current History, 115
(784): 298-304. November 2016. "The World Bank’s Recipe for
Irrelevance," Project Syndicate, September 12, 2016 "Trump-style
Politics Comes to India," Project Syndicate, June 20, 2016 “Exit,”
Seminar, 677, January 2016: 110-114.
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"Escape from the World Bank," Project Syndicate, October 16,
2015. Brandon Alcorn, Gayle Christensen and Devesh Kapur, "Higher
Education and MOOCs in India and the Global South," Change: The
Magazine of Higher Learning, 47:3, 42-49, May-June 2015. Devesh
Kapur & Prakirti Nangia. “A Targeted Approach: India's
Expanding Social Safety Net,” World Politics Review, September 24,
2013. "America’s Neglected Financial Children," Project Syndicate,
March 28, 2014 (with Nancy Birdsall) “Glance Back, Drive Forward:
Reflections on the World Bank’s History,” Keynote address at
conference on “Using History to Inform Development Policy: The Role
of Archives,” October 25, 2012. "Who Should Lead the World Bank?"
Project Syndicate, February 17, 2012 (with Arvind Subramanian).
“Addressing the Trilemma of Higher Education,” Seminar, 617,
January 2011: 87-92. “The Supply Mix,” Seminar, 587, July 2008.
“Improving Data Quality: What Is To Be Done?” (with Yoshiko Herrera
and Sogomon Tarontsi), APSA-CP Newsletter, Vol. 18 (1), Winter
2007. “Leveraging the Diaspora,” Seminar, 567, November 2006.
“India’s Promise,” Harvard Magazine, July-August 2005. “Firm
Opinions, Infirm Facts,” Seminar, 538, June 2004, pp. 32-35.
“Migration’s New Payoff,” (with John McHale), Foreign Policy,
November/December, 2003, 48-57. Comment on Kevin O’Rourke and
Richard Sinnott “Migration Flows: Political Economy of Migration
and the Empirical Challenges,” in Proceedings of Annual World Bank
Conference on Development Economics, Paris 2003. “Who Gets to Run
the World,” Foreign Policy, November/December 2000, pp. 44-50.
“Handmaiden, Scapegoat or Bungler: The IMF, South Korea and the
Asian Crisis,” (in Korean), Gyegan Sasang, 2000. “The IMF: A Cure
or A Curse,” Foreign Policy, Summer 1998.
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Newspaper Op-eds: Columnist: Business Standard (monthly column,
2011-14) Op-eds in other publications: Boston Globe, Business
Standard, Financial Times, Hindu, India Abroad, Indian Express,
Newsweek, Project Syndicate, Times of India, Wall Street Journal.
FELLOWSHIPS AND PRIZES Distinguished Alumni Award, IIT BHU, 2016.
Deans Leave, Fall 2014. Co-Winner, 2012 ENMISA (Ethnicity,
Nationalism, and Migration Section of ISA) Distinguished Book Award
for Diaspora, Development, and Democracy: The Domestic Impact of
International Migration from India. “Democracy and Development”
Fellowship, Princeton University, AY 2008-09. Joseph R. Levenson
Teaching Prize, Harvard College, 2005. Harvard University,
Weatherhead Center Junior Faculty Research Leave Fellowship, 2001.
GRANTS BILL AND MELINDA GATES FOUNDATION. “Agriculture Markets in
India.” Award period: December 2017-February 2020. Amount
$1,365,870. FORD FOUNDATION. “Understanding the multiple impacts of
urbanization in North India: Gender, Economic Opportunity, and
Social Change.” Award period: November 2017-October 2020. Amount
$584,000 UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES,
DEAN’S INTEGRATIVE GLOBAL INQUIRIES FUND AWARD Workshop on
“Migration and Cognitive Change: Creating a Transatlantic Research
Network.” Award period: March 2017-June 2019. Amount: $16,400
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, PERRY WORLD HOUSE Support for
“Migration and Cognitive Change: Creating a Transatlantic Research
Network.” Award period: January 2017-July 2017. Amount: $7,000
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THE FORD FOUNDATION Conference on “South Asian and Arab
Constitutionalism.” Award period: January 2017-July 2018. Amount:
$99,654 SMITH RICHARDSON FOUNDATION CASI Annual Indian Security
Workshop March 2016-March 2020. Amount: $128,920 SMITH RICHARDSON
FOUNDATION The Politics of Indian National Security Policy June
2015-December 2017. Amount: $45,830 ADITI KOTHARI Urban India
Research Project 2015-16. Amount: $19,062.31. VISHAL MAHADEVIA
Research Assistant Term Fund to support Penn Graduate and
Undergraduate Research Assistants for CASI Projects. September 2014
for FY15. Amount: $18,000. KHEMKA Program Term Fund Support for
research coordinator, FY12- FY15. Amount: $100,000. ADITYA
NARAYANAN The Dalit Entrepreneurship Research Project. July 2014
for FY15. Amount: $20,000. PARAG SAXENA Five-Year Term Gift Pledge
Agreement toward for Research Projects including Urban India.
FY14-FY18.. Amount: $250,000. DEVANSHI DALMIA Research Projects
including Urban India. FY13-FY16. Amount: $100,000. RAMANAN
RAGHAVENDRA Research support for faculty to conduct research in
India, FY12. Amount: $14,780. SMITH RICHARDSON FOUNDATION CASI
Annual Indian Security Workshop, August 2012-August 2015. Amount
$50,000. SMITH RICHARDSON FOUNDATION Indian Foreign Policy and the
Future of Asia March 2011-July 2016. Amount:$157,189 SMITH
RICHARDSON FOUNDATION (joint with Prof. Rahul Sagar, Princeton
University) Research project on, “Engaging the World: Indian
Foreign Policy and the future of Asia.” Award Period: March
2011-June 2015. Amount: $168,327. VISHAL MAHADEVIA Research support
for project on Well-Being of Socially marginalized Groups, FY12.
Amount: $5,000.
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MINISTRY OF OVERSEAS INDIAN AFFAIRS, GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
Research on Indian Diaspora FY11-FY: $398.236. SHERYL KAYE TERM
FUND Research support to support PhD students and post-doctoral
Fellows over five years FY10-FY15. Amount: $406,250. CHARLES R.
KAYE The Dalit Entrepreneurship Research Project. December 2009 for
FY10. Amount: $25,000. THE JOHN TEMPLETON FOUNDATION Research
project on,“The Dalit Entrepreneur: A CASI Research Program.” Award
Period: February 2011- December 2013. Amount: $421,071. THE JOHN D.
AND CATHERINE T. MACARTHUR FOUNDATION Research project on, “How Can
Talent Abroad Help Reform Institutions at Home? Towards a New
Diaspora Agenda in Development.” Award period: 2008-10. Amount:
$366,000. THE BILL & MELINDA GATES FOUNDATION Research project,
“Incubation Project for an Indian Healthcare Ratings System and
Professional Networking Platform.” Award period: August 2008
through November 2009. Amount: $374,547. THE NAND & JEET KHEMKA
FOUNDATION Support conference on “India’s Options in the Climate
Change Negotiations.” June 2008. Amount: $100,000. Conference
dates: March 5 to 6, 2009. THE ANIL AGARWAL FOUNDATION February 1
to 2, 2008 Workshop on “Reengineering Engineering Education in
India.” Award period: November 2007 through August 2008. Amount:
$60,979. THE GE FUND Research project on “India’s Human Capital:
Higher Education in India.” Award period: January 2007 through
December 2009. Amount: $100,000. THE BILL & MELINDA GATES
FOUNDATION September 10, 2007 Workshop on “Leveraging NRI
Capabilities to Strengthen India’s Health System.” Award period:
June 2007 the December 2008. Amount: $96,813. THE NAND & JEET
KHEMKA FOUNDATION For research project on Public-Private
Partnerships in Public Health. June 2008. Amount: $50,000. Project
period: FY09 through FY10.
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WARBURG PINCUS LLC Support conference on, “The Future of India’s
Foreign Policy.” February 2008. Amount: $25,000. Conference dates:
April 18 to 19, 2008. DHANANJAY M. PAI The Dalit Research Program
including the December 4 to 6, 2008 “Dalits Studies Conference.”
Funding period: February 2008 through December 2008. Amount:
$65,000. THE NAND & JEET KHEMKA FOUNDATION Support conference
on “The Future of India’s Foreign Policy.” April 2007. Amount:
$100,000. Conference dates: April 18 to 19, 2008. THE NAND &
JEET KHEMKA FOUNDATION Support conference on “Power Realignments in
Asia: A US-India Policy Dialogue.” September 2006. Amount:
$100,000. Conference dates: December 14 to 17, 2006. DHANANJAY M.
PAI Support core needs for research and teaching programs at CASI.
September 2006 for FY07 through FY08. Amount: $100,000. Harvard
University, Asia Center, Project on “Rule and Reform in the Giants:
China and India,” 2005. Harvard University, Asia Center, Survey of
migration from India, 2004. Weatherhead Initiative (with Dani
Rodrik and Mark Rosenzweig): To study impact of international human
capital flows on source (developing) countries, 2003-06. American
Institute for Indian Studies. For a yearlong stay in India in
connection with “Diasporas and Development” project, 2002-03.
MacArthur Foundation. Survey of people of Indian origin in U.S.,
2003-04. Center for Global Development. Monograph on International
Human Capital Flows, 2002. Milton Grant, Harvard School of Public
Health. Work on diasporas and development, 2001-03. Harvard
University, Asia Center, Survey of remittances in India, 2002. Gift
from Diego Hidalgo Foundation. Summer support for work on
diasporas, 2000-02.
Harvard University Weatherhead Center Research Grant. Conference
on India’s public institutions, 2001.
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Harvard University, Asia Center, Conference on India’s public
institutions, 2001. Harvard University Weatherhead Center Research
Grant for conference on India’s nuclear tests, 1999. Harvard
University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Clarke/Cooke Fund Junior
Faculty grants (various years).
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INVITED TALKS April 27, 2017, Book Talk: The Other One Percent:
Indians in America, Center for Emerging Markets, D'Amore McKim
School of Business, Northeastern University
April 24, 2017, Book Talk: The Other One Percent: Indians in
America, Center for Contemporary South Asia, Watson Institute for
International and Public Affairs, Brown University
March 6, 2017, Seminar: "The Developmental State in India" Lal
Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, Dehra Dun,
India
February 21, 2017, Book Talk: The Other One Percent: Indians in
America, Kellogg Institute for International Studies, Notre Dame
University
February 15, 2017, Seminar: "The Economy of West Bengal",
Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute
of Technology
February 8, 2017, Global Faculty Series Presentation: The Other
One Percent: Indians in America, Global Studies Program, Department
of Geography and Urban Studies, Asian Studies Program &
Comparative Politics Colloquium, Temple University
February 13, 2017, Book Talk: The Other One Percent: Indians in
America, Deepak and Neera Raj Center on Indian Economic Policies,
Columbia University, New York
February 6, 2017, Book Talk: The Other One Percent: Indians in
America, Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, University of
California, Santa Barbara
February 1, 2017, Book Talk: The Other One Percent: Indians in
America, California Center for Population Research, University of
California, Los Angeles
January 17, 2017, Book Talk: The Other One Percent: Indians in
America, Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi, India
November 30, 2016, Seminar: "Urbanization in India: Evidence
from a household survey of National Capital Region," Perry World
House, University of Pennsylvania
November 18, 2016, Book Talk: The Other One Percent: Indians in
America, The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE), Silicon Valley, Santa
Clara, CA.
November 17, 2016, Seminar: "The Dilemmas of Higher Education in
India", "Topics on Contemporary India" Seminar Series, Institute of
International Studies, University of California, Berkeley.
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November 14, 2016, Seminar: "The Dilemmas of Higher Education:
India in Comparative Perspective". Colloquium on the Economies and
Societies of India and China, The New School, New York
July 14, 2016, Seminar: "India and Multilateralism" Lal Bahadur
Shastri National Academy of Administration, Dehra Dun, India
March 2016."The dilemmas of higher education: India in
Comparative Perspective" Keynote address at conference on higher
education at The National University of Educational Planning and
Administration (NUEPA), New Delhi,
November 13, 2015, "The Other One Percent: Indians in America,"
Brown-Harvard-MIT Joint Seminar on South Asian Politics, South Asia
Institute, Harvard University.
July 2015, "The Suffocating Embrace? The State in Independent
India," Nehru Memorial Museum & Library Public Lecture Series,
New Delhi.
March 28, 2015, "Public Opinion in Indian Foreign Policy,"
Association of Asian Studies 2015 Annual Meeting, Chicago
October 13-14, 2014, Deepening the Japan-India Partnership,
"Domestic and International Economics", United Nations University,
Tokyo, Japan
August 30, 2014, American Political Science Association Annual
Meeting, "Politics After the Digital Revolution," Washington,
D.C.
April 4, 2014, “Indian Americans: The Life and Work of a New
Immigrant Community,” Social Science and Policy Forum, University
of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. May 30-31, 2014. “Higher
Education in China and India,” (with Elizabeth Perry), National
University of Singapore, “Changing Role of the State in Asia:
Comparative Perspectives,” Singapore. May 29, 2014: “Why Has
Corruption Grown in India,” Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy,
Singapore. April 16, 2014, “Indian Americans: The Life and Work of
a New Immigrant Community,” Asia Studies Program, Boston
University, Boston, Massachusetts.
February 18, 2014, “The Brittle Forge: Higher Education and
India’s Human Capital,” South Asia Institute, Harvard University,
Cambridge, MA.
February 7, 2014, “Can Anti-Poverty Programs Reduce Conflict:
India’s Rural Employment Guarantee and Maoist Insurgence,” Workshop
on India’s Maoist Insurgency, Princeton University, Princeton,
NJ.
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October 4-5, 2013, “Why has Corruption Grown in India,” India
2030: The Political Consequences of Economic Growth Conference,
Princeton, New Jersey.
July 22-26, 2013, Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center
Conference, “Building an Indian State for the 21st Century,”
Bellagio, Italy.
March 22, 2013, “The Indian University in Comparative
Perspective,” at Conference on “The Future of Indian Universities:
Comparative Perspectives on Higher Education Reforms for a
Knowledge Society,” OP Jindal Global University, India. February
6-7, 2013, “Markets and Social Institutions: India’s Dalits in the
Economic Liberalization Era,” South Asia Studies Colloquia, Yale
University, New Haven, CT. December 17, 2012, High Level Policy
Forum on Global Governance, United Nations Development Programme in
China, Beijing, China. October 25, 2012, Keynote Address: “Glance
Back, Drive Forward: Reflections on the World Bank’s History,”
World Bank Conference Using History to Inform Development Policy:
The Role of Archives, Washington, D.C. September 18, 2012, Center
for Global Development, “Rethinking Inequality: Dalits in the
Market Reform Era,” Washington D.C. August 27, 2012, Emerging Asia
and the Future of the US-Australia Alliance Workshop, Economics,
Growth and Regional Power: “Geoeconomics vs Geopolitics,” Australia
National University, Canberra, Australia.
April 28, 2012, “The Capability Trap of the Indian State: What
Is It and Why Does It Matter?” at “Prosperity Amidst Poverty &
Inequality: A Symposium on India & China,” New School, New
York.
April 9-10, 2012, “India’s Growth Prospects: Will the Indian
Economy Deliver?” at Symposium on “India’s Strategic Trajectory,”
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington, D.C.
April 6, 2012, Joint Seminar on South Asian Politics, “Markets,
Politics, & Social Institutions: India’s Dalits in the
Post-Economic Liberalization Era,” Harvard University, Cambridge,
MA. (with Lant Pritchett)
March 29th, 2012, “The Maoist Conflict in India,” (with Kishore
Gawande and Shanker Satyanath), The Browne Center for International
Politics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. (Note this
paper was also presented at GSB, Stanford University and Department
of Economics, U.C. Berkeley in end-April 2012).
March 23, 2012, “Studying Contemporary India: Questions and
Methods Beyond the Concerns of American Academia,” University of
Virginia, Charlottesville, VA.
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February 24, 2012, “India and International Financial
Institutions,” at Workshop on “India and Multilateralism,” Centre
for Policy Research, New Delhi, India.
January 13, 2012, “Indian Higher Education,” at Emerging Markets
Symposium on Tertiary Education, St. John’s College, Oxford
University, Oxford, England.
November 18-23, 2011, “Creativity and Innovation,” Ideas from
India Symposium, Australian National University, Canberra,
Australia.
November 7, 2011, “Migration,” Symposium on “Reinventing the
City,” Department of Urban Studies and Planning, MIT, Cambridge,
MA.
September 26-27, 2011, “Employment and Skills: The Indian Case,”
at Conference on “Employment: Global & Country Perspectives,”
Large Economies’ Employment Perspective: China & India, NYU
Stern School of Business, New York, NY.
July 28-29, 2011, “The Supreme Court and Higher Education,”
paper presented at conference, “Higher Education: New Trends &
Challenges,” Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi, India.
July 22, 2011, “Remittances and Rashomon” (with Randall Akee),
Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi, India.
July 21, 2011, “Remittances and Rashomon” (with Randall Akee),
Reserve Bank of India, Mumbai, India.
May 6, 2011, Keynote Speaker, Diasporas & Development
Conference, The New School, New York, NY. April 29, 2011,
“Leadership in India,” Harvard Asia Vision 21 Conference Featured
Speaker, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. April 15, 2011, Higher
Education in Developing Countries, Instituto del Peru, San Isidro,
Peru. March 15, 2011, The Political Impact of International
Migration from India, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland,
OH. October 20, 2010, Book launch, Center for Global Development
Diaspora, Development & Democracy: The Domestic Impact of
International Migration from India, Washington, D.C. May 6-9, 2010,
“Does Spatial Mobility Lead to Social Mobility? Democracy and
Migration,” Paper for conference on “Six Decades of Indian
Democracy: Achievements, Failures, Promises, Challenges,”
Conference, Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown
University, Providence, RI.
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January 22-23, 2010 , “Canada in 2015: A View From Outside,”
Conference on “The World in 2015: Implications for Canada,”
Canadian International Council, University of Ottawa, Ottawa,
Canada. January 14-18, 2010, “One Way or Many? Varieties of
Capitalism,” Eleventh Annual Conference on “Regional and Global
Integration: Quo Vadis?” Global Development Network, Prague, Czech
Republic. December 4-5, 2009, Devesh Kapur, “Can the Privatization
of Foreign Aid Enhance Accountability?” Paper presented at a
conference on Privatization of Development Assistance, NYU Law
School, New York, NY (with Dennis Whittle). May 26, 2009, “Beyond
the Fence: Research Lessons on How Immigration and Remittances
Shape Global Development,” Center for International Development at
Harvard University and the Center for Global Development. May
22-23, 2009, “The Middle Class and the Professions,” at Conference
on “The Politics of the Emerging Middle Class in Developing
Countries,” Princeton University, Princeton, NJ. May 13, 2009, “The
Domestic Impact of International Migration from India.” Part of the
“Mapping the Future of India Lecture Series,” University of
California, Santa Cruz. April 22, 2009, “Interpretations &
Implications of the Global Financial Crisis: An Asian Perspective,”
at Conference on “New Ideas in Development after the Financial
Crisis,” Center for Global Development and Johns Hopkins School of
Advanced International Studies, Washington D.C. April 21, 2009,
“The Global Financial Crisis & Its Impact on South Asia,”
Invited Lecture, Annual Retreat of the Poverty Reduction, Economic
Management, Finance & Private Sector Development, South Asia
Region, The World Bank, Washington D.C. April 2, 2009, “The
Political Impact of International Migration on Sending Countries,”
Conference on “Living Migration: Spanning the Local & Global
Divide,” Wagner School, NYU, New York, NY. March 25, 2009, “The
Political Impact of International Migration,” Seminar at the
Princeton Institute for International & Regional Studies,
Princeton University, Princeton, NY. December 3-5, 2008, “How Have
India’s Dalits Fared in the Era of Economic Liberalization?
Preliminary Results from a Household Survey of Dalits in Uttar
Pradesh,” paper presented at Dalit Studies Conference, University
of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. (joint with Chandra Bhan Prasad
and D. Shyam Babu)
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November 6, 2008, “Higher Education in India,” at TIAA-CREF
Institute Higher Education Leadership Conference “Public Good vs.
Private Gain: International Perspectives on the Mission of Higher
Education,” New York, NY. October 23, 2008, “Globalization and the
Paradox of Indian Democracy,” Program on Development &
Democracy, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ. October 21, 2008,
“India and the World Bank,” Global Governance Seminar of the Ralph
Bunche Institute for International Studies, CUNY, NY. October 2-4,
2008, “Higher Education in India,” paper presented at the “American
Universities in a Global Market Conference,” National Bureau of
Economic Research, Woodstock, VT. September 30, 2008, “Mortgaging
the Future: Indian Higher Education,” South Asia Council, Yale
University, New Haven, CT. September 27, 2008, “Medical Tourism,”
Workshop on “Globalization & Migration,” Weatherhead Center for
International Affairs, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. May 8,
2008, “Globalization and the Paradox of Indian Democracy,” paper
presented at the South Asia Center, University of Washington,
Seattle, WA. May 7, 2008, “Higher Education in Developing
Countries,” Graduate School Workshop, University of Washington,
Seattle, WA. April 28, 2008, “The Impact of Migration from India on
India,” Keynote address at conference on “Innovation and Economic
Development in South Asia and New Jersey: Opportunities and
Constraints,” Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ.. April 25,
2008, “Politics and Political Economy of Modern India,” Georgetown
University Political Economy Conference, Washington, D.C. April
18-19, 2008, “Soft Power or Soft Underbelly,’ paper presented at
conference on “The Future of India’s Foreign Policy,” University of
Pennsylvania. April 10, 2008, Global Development Initiative Forum,
“Higher Education and International Development,” Keynote address,
“Higher Education in Developing Countries: What Roles, What
Impact?” University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA. January 29 -
March 1, 2008, “The Political Impact of International Migration,”
Migration & Development: Future Directions for Research &
Policy, Social Science Research Council, New York, NY. January 24,
2008, “Migration and ‘Social’ Remittances in India,” Spring South
Asia Colloquium, University of Pennsylvania.
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November 30-December 1, 2007, “Political economy of reform in
India: Ideas, Interests and Institutions,” Conference on “Rule and
Reform in the Giants: China and India Compared,” Harvard
University, Cambridge, MA. July 2007, “Higher Education in India,”
Brookings-NCAER India Policy Forum, New Delhi, India. November
2006, “India’s Human Capital Challenges,” conference on “India
Emerging: Implications for Canada,” Carleton University, Ottawa,
Ontario, Canada. August 30-September 3, 2006, “The Dimensions and
Implications of Media Inequality in India,” Paper prepared for the
Annual meeting of the American Political Science Association,
Philadelphia, PA(with Bharat Anand and Dmitri Byzalov). March 2006,
“Alternatives to the IMF” (with Richard Webb), G-24 Technical
Meeting, Geneva, Switzerland. February 2006, Conference on
“Accountability of International Organizations,” Paper on:
“Accountability of Academics working with the Bretton Woods
Institutions,” Princeton University, Princeton, NJ. February 2006,
Strategic Asia Conference, National Bureau of Asia Research.
Washington D.C. Presentation of paper outline, “Trade,
Interdependence, and Security in South Asia” for book volume on
“Trade, Interdependence, and Security in Asia.”. January 2006,
“Globalization and the Paradox of Indian Democracy.” University of
Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. January 2006, Conference on
International Migration and Development, OECD (Paris, France).
Paper presented on “Economic consequences of Migration from India.”
October 2005, “Globalization and the Paradox of Indian Democracy.”
SAIS, Washington D.C. June 2005, “Globalization and the Paradox of
Indian Democracy.” CERI, Paris, France. June 2005, “Strategic
Issues Facing Asia,” presented at the Ohlin Institute’s Wianno
Conference. April 2005, “Globalization and the Paradox of Indian
Democracy,” Brown University, Providence, RI. January 2005,
“International Migration and Remittances,” Conference on
Globalization & Governance, Hokkaido University Graduate School
of Law, Japan.
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June 2004, “Political Economy of Higher Education Reform in
India,” presented at the conference on “Economic Growth, Human
Development and Governance: India in Comparative Perspective,”
Center for the Advanced Study of India, University of Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia, PA. September 2003, “International Remittances: The
New Development Mantra?” Paper presented to the G-24 Technical
Group Meeting, Geneva, Switzerland. July 14, 2003, “Sojourns and
Software: Internationally Mobile Human Capital and High-Tech
Industry Development in India, Ireland and Israel,” at conference
on “Software and Growth,” Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh,
PA. June 2003, “The Development Impact of Remittance on India,”
Reserve Bank of India, Mumbai, India. May 2003, “Indian Diasporic
Philanthropy,” Paper prepared for Diasporic Philanthropy workshop,
Asia Center and Hauser Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
April 26-27, 2003, “A Critique of G-7 Proposals on Reforming the
MDBs,” paper presented at Yale University conference on “The Impact
of Globalization on the Nation-State from above,” New Haven, CT.
August 2002, “India’s Institutions and Economic Performance,” paper
presented at Annual Meetings of the American Political Science
Association, Boston, MA. July 2002, “Privatization in India: the
Imperatives and Consequences of Gradualism,” presented at the First
annual conference of NETSAPPE, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor,
MI. June 2002, “Privatization in India: the Imperatives and
Consequences of Gradualism.” Paper presented at Stanford
University, Stanford, CA. December 2001, “Fiscal Impact of the
Brain Drain: Indian Emigration to the U.S.” Paper presented at
NBER-NCAER Conference on India’s Economic Reforms, Neemrana Fort
Palace, India. December 2001, “Diasporas and Technology Transfer.”
Paper presented at workshop on “Software and Growth,” Carnegie
Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA. August 2001, “India’s
Institutions and Economic Performance.” Paper presented at Annual
Meetings of the American Political Science Association, San
Francisco, CA. August 2001, “Risk and Reward: Agency, Contracts and
the Expansion of IMF Conditionality.” Paper presented at Annual
Meetings of the American Political Science Association, San
Francisco, CA.
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April 2001, “Risk and Reward: Agency, Contracts and the
Expansion of IMF Conditionality.” Paper presented to the Duke
University International Political Economy Seminar, Durham, NC.
April 2001, “The Causes and Consequences of India’s IT Boom.” Paper
presented at the “Asia Capitalisms” workshop at Harvard University,
Cambridge, MA. February 2001, “India’s Institutions and Economic
Performance.” Paper presented at conference on “Public Institutions
in India: Performance and Design,” Harvard University, Cambridge,
MA. December 2000, “Sharing the Spoils: A Proposal for Cooperative
Arrangements for Taxing International Human Capital Flows.” Paper
presented at NBER-NCAER Conference on India’s Economic Reforms,
Neemrana Fort Palace, India. Presented with Mihir Desai and John
McHale. October 2000, “Risk and Reward: Agency, Contracts and the
Expansion of IMF Conditionality.” Paper for workshop on “The
Political Economy of International Monetary and Financial
Institutions,” Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. April 2000,
“Governance Related Conditionalities of the IFIs.” Paper for
Conference on Development and the Nation State, Washington
University, St. Louis, MO. March 2, 2000, “Governance Related
Conditionalities of the IFIs,” (with Richard Webb) at the G-24
Technical Meeting, Lima, Peru. February 2000, “Governance Related
Conditionalities of the IFIs,” presented at the Center for
International Development at the Kennedy School of Government,
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. March 2000, “Handmaiden,
Scapegoat or Bungler: The IMF, South Korea and the Asian Crisis.”
Paper presented at conference at the Weatherhead Center for
International Affairs, on Korea, Its International and Comparative
Contexts, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. March 2000,
“Handmaiden, Scapegoat or Bungler: The IMF, South Korea and the
Asian Crisis.” Paper presented at Annual Meetings of International
Studies Association Conference, Los Angeles, CA. May 1999,
“Processes of Change in International Institutions.” Paper
presented at conference on New Roles and Functions of the UN and
the Bretton Woods Institutions, WIDER, Helsinki, Finland. May 1999,
“Anatomy of Governance in the World Bank.” Paper presented at
conference at Northwestern University, conference on “Reinventing
the World Bank,” Evanston, IL.
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February 1999, “India’s Nuclear Tests and Economic Sanctions.”
Paper presented at conference on South Asia’s Nuclear Tests,
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. November 1998, “The IFIs and
Financial Crisis.” Paper presented at JOSPOD (The Joint Harvard-MIT
Seminar on the Political Economy of Development), Cambridge, MA.
PANELIST October 3, 2016, Roundtable: "The EU Crisis: Views from
Asia", Harvard Asia Center, Harvard University
September 27, 2016, Book Panel: "Slums: How Informal Real Estate
Markets Work" Penn Institute for Urban Research & Perry World
House, University of Pennsylvania
July 21, 2016, Engaging the World: Reforming India's Public
Institutions, Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies, New Delhi,
India
May 10, 2016, “Leveraging the Diaspora as a Source of
Innovation, Technology, and Research,” Federation of Indian
Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) and the World Bank’s
Global Knowledge Partnership on Migration and Development (KNOMAD),
Washington, D.C. April 12, 2016, Workshop “Indian State Capacity,”
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington, D.C. April
11, 2016, “Can India Ever Become a Great Power?” Carnegie Endowment
for International Peace, Washington, D.C. January 20, 2016,
“India-Japan Economic Relations” at India-Japan Roundtable
Conference and Book Launch, Centre for Policy Research, United
Nations University Conference “India-Japan Roundtable,” Centre for
Policy Research & United Nations University, New Delhi, India.
October 19, 2015, Discussant, Book Manuscript Workshop “Forging an
Education for All: The State and Primary Schooling in Rural India,”
Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University,
Providence, RI. October 4, 2015, Keynote Address, Pratham USA Gala,
Raleigh, NC. September 30, 2015, “High Level Panel on the Future of
Multilateral Development Banking,” Center for Global Development,
Washington, D.C. April 2015, Carnegie India Panel, Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace, Washington, DC.
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March 2015, “The Indian State”, Lal Bahadur Shastri National
Academy of Administration, Musoorie, India.
February 24-25, 2015, OECD, Paris. Expert meeting,
"International migration and development" presentation on
“Technological change and International migration”.
December 15, 2014, Observer Research Foundation, "India's
Domestic Economy and International Partnerships, Mumbai, India.
December 10, 2014, Ministry of Finance, Department of Economic
Affairs, Government of India Conclave, Structural Reforms &
Growth in India, Panelist, "State Capacity, Structural Reforms and
Growth, New Delhi, India.
November 20, 2014, Media India Lecture Series, "The Rise of the
Dalit Entrepreneurs," Consulate of India, New York, NY.
August 30, 2014, Organized panel on “Social and Political
Attitudes in India,” APSA Annual Meetings. September 19-20, 2014,
Following the Flows: Transnational Approaches to Intangible
Remittances, Workshop on Economic, Political and Social Transfers,
"Roundtable: Emerging Themes and Future Trends", Princeton
University.
July 20, 2014 "Defying the Odds: The Rise of Dalit
Entrepreneurs", New Delhi, India.
March 27, 2014, Warburg Pincus, LLC, India Decides 2014, Panel
on the General Election, New York, NY. March 25, 2014, Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace, India Decides 2014: Assessing
the Elections and Beyond, Washington, D.C. March 14, 2014, Asia
Society. India Decides 2014: Assessing the Elections and Beyond,
Mumbai, India. March 12, 2014, CASI and Lok Foundation. India
Decides 2014: Assessing the Elections and Beyond, New Delhi, India.
February 24, 2014, Research to Practice: Building Scholarship
Critical to Building a Sustainable Urban Future, A World Urban
Forum Dialogue Session, “Urbanization in India,” University of
Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. December 5-7, 2013, Indian
Institute of Technology Alumni Bi-Annual Conference, “Future of
Higher Education in India: Establishing World-Class Research
Universities,” Houston, TX. July 15-17, 2013, India Policy Forum,
India Policy Foundation, New Delhi, India.
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April 11, 2013, Globalization Trendlab 2013, The Lauder
Institute and the Wharton School, Poverty, Inequality and Social
Policy, Philadelphia, PA. January 31, 2013, Carnegie Endowment,
Twenty Years of Transformations in South Asia Conference, Will
India Ever Be the Locomotive of History, in South Asia?, “The
Challenge of Human Capital,” Washington, D.C. January 28, 2013,
World Bank, Human Development Forum: “Is the World Bank a Force for
Equity? Debating the Bank’s Engagement in Various Contexts,”
Washington, D.C. September 14-16, 2012, Indiaspora, Model Minority:
NRI to ABCD to Global Citizen?: “A Statistical Profile of the
Indian-American Community,” Mohonk Mountain Resort, New Paltz, NY.
November 30, 2012, Panel Chair, “New Research on Dalits,”
Celebrating Twenty Years of the Center for the Advanced Study of
India, A Symposium in Collaboration with the University of
Pennsylvania Institute for the Advanced Study of India, New Delhi,
India. July 19-20, 2012, IGC-ISI India Development Policy
Conference, Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi, India. July
16-18, 2012, India Policy Forum, New Delhi, India. April 19, 2012,
Discussant on Festschrift for John Williamson, Peterson Institute
for International Economics, Washington, D.C. December 10-17, 2011,
Presentations as part of US Experts on Asian Affairs First
Delegation to Japan, The Japan Foundation, Tokyo, Japan. July 12-
13, 2011, India Policy Forum, New Delhi, India. May 13, 2011, “The
Middle-Class in the BRIC Countries,” University of Chicago.
Chicago, IL. May 9, 2011, Conference, University of Alberta, China
& India Global Power Shift - Opportunities for Canada &
Alberta. Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. February 2, 2011, National
Level Consultation, National Institute of Advanced Studies and the
Indian National Science Academy, Mobility of Indian Scientists and
Technologists, Bangalore, India. February 1, 2011, Centre for the
Study of Developing Societies, Workshop on Higher Education, New
Delhi, India.
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January 13-14, 2011, MacArthur Author’s Workshop, World Bank
Diaspora Supporting Institutional Development at Home: Evidence
& Lessons from India Washington, D.C. December 20-21, 2010,
IGC-ISI India Development Policy Conference, International Growth
Centre and India Statistical Institute, New Delhi, India. November
10, 2010, International Round Table, American Friends of Bucerius
and the German Marshall Fund, India: Educational
Trends-Perspectives & Challenges, Washington, D.C. October 1-2,
2010, India Forum, The German Marshall Fund, Stockholm, Sweden.
September 20, 2010, Brookings Institution, Economic Innovation
& Talent Migration: Assessing China’s Approach to Global
Competitiveness Washington, D.C. August 30, 2010, XXX1 G-24
Technical Group Meeting, United Nations, Panelist, Geneva,
Switzerland. July 13-14, 2010, India Policy Forum 2010, Brookings
Institution & National Council of Applied Economic Research,
New Delhi, India. March 25, 2010, “Determinants of Recent Elections
Outcomes in India,” Panel Discussion, Annual Meeting of The
Association of Asian Studies, Philadelphia, PA. June 4-6, 2009,
“International Financial Crisis,” Annual Meeting of Academic
Council on the United Nations System (“Small, Middle & Emerging
Powers in the UN System”), Trinidad & Tobago. May 18-19, 2009,
“India and the Cold War, 1947-1991. Archival Perspectives and
Historical Revisions,” jointly organized by the Woodrow Wilson
International Center for Scholars, Center for the Advanced Study of
India and SAIS, Washington, D.C. May 7-8, 2009, Discussant on book
manuscript, “Legislating for International Organizations: the US
Congress and the Bretton Woods Financial Institutions,” Centre for
International Governance Innovation, University of Waterloo,
Canada. March 6 - 7, 2009, Panelist, Conference on “India’s Options
in Climate Change Negotiations,” Center for the Advanced Study of
India and Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi, India. October 15,
2008, Discussant, Workshop for the 13th Finance Commission of
India, organized by Center for the Advanced Study of India &
the World Bank, Washington, D.C.
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September 11-12, 2008, “Reform Processes and Perspectives in
India,” Fundacao Oriente Arrabida Conference on “The Political
& Social Underpinnings of Reform in China & India.” July
14-15, 2008, “Good Intentions, Bad Outcomes,” India Policy Forum,
National Council of Applied Economic Research & Brookings
Institution, New Delhi, India. June 9-12, 2008, “Higher Education
and High-tech Industry,” Panel Chair, Annual World Bank Conference
on Development Economics, Cape Town, South Africa. April 4, 2008,
“Reforming the Giants - China and India Compared,” Panelist,
Presidential Roundtable, Association for Asian Studies Annual
Meeting, Atlanta, GA. February 18-19, 2008, Center for Global
Development, Workshop on “Progress-based Aid” for education,
Washington, D.C. October 30, 2007, “Poverty in India,” Google
Foundation, San Francisco, CA. September 16, 2007, Columbia-LSE New
School Research Colloquium, “A Great Transformation? Understanding
India’s New Political Economy,” Discussant, New York, NY. April
2007, “Challenges and Opportunities of Globalization in India,”
Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington D.C. April 2007, “The Rise of the
New Asian Giants: Adaptive Strategies in the World Economy,” Brown
University, Watson Institute for International Studies, Providence,
RI. March 2007, “Understanding India's Recent Growth Spurt,”
Caribbean Development Bank, Barbados. January 2007, “Changing the
World? Penn Confronts Global Challenges,” Faculty Senate University
of Pennsylvania. A conversation with faculty from across the
University, Philadelphia, PA. November 2006, “Assessing Migration
and Development Research”, Social Science Research Council, New
York, NY. November 2006, “India’s Human Capital Challenges,”
conference on “India Emerging: Implications for Canada,” Carleton
University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. October 2006, “Potential of
the Diaspora to Strengthen Entrepreneurship,” United Nations.
October 2006, “Globalization and the Paradox of Indian Democracy,”
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.
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September 2, 2006, “The Dimensions and Implications of Media
Inequality in India,” Presented at the annual meeting of the
American Political Science Association, Philadelphia. March 2006,
University of California, Santa Cruz Conference on “Political
Economy of Asian Integration.” Presentation on “How Do India’s
Human Resource Capabilities Affect Its Capacity for Innovation.”
February 2006, Conference on “Accountability of International
Organizations.” Paper on “Accountability of Academics working with
the Bretton Woods Institutions”, Princeton University. February
2006, Strategic Asia Conference, National Bureau of Asia Research.
Presentation of paper outline, “Trade, Interdependence, and
Security in South Asia” for book volume on “Trade, Interdependence,
and Security in Asia,” Washington D.C. February 2006, Invited
keynote speaker at retreat of Executive Directors of the World
Bank, “The Knowledge Bank,” Washington D.C. January 2006, Plenary
speaker at Conference on Overseas Indians organized by the
Government of India “The Strategic Impact of the Indian Diaspora,”
Hyderabad, India. December 2005, Panelist on “Ideology and Dissent
in China and India,” CPR-SAIS India/China Conference, Colombo, Sri
Lanka. November 2005, “International Migration and Development,”
SSRC-ESRC-IOM, New York. July 2005, Brookings-NCAER “India Policy
Forum 2005,” New Delhi, India. June 2005. “World Bank History
Project,” at Workshop on “Documenting UN History: Comparing
Methods, Findings, and Lessons,” UN Dag Hammarskjöld Library, the
UN University (UNU), the Academic Council on UN Studies (ACUNS),
and the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, New York,
NY. May 2005, “Accountability in Development,” at the conference
“Philanthropy, Ethics and International Aid,” Princeton University.
May 2005, “Diasporic Philanthropy,” Asia Society, New York, NY.
April 2005, “Social Security and Governance” at conference on
“Managing Globalization: Lessons from China and India,” Singapore.
November 2004, “Labor Mobility, Migration and Development,”
MacArthur Foundation. October, 2004, “Promoting Policy Coherence
for Development,” German Marshall Fund,
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Washington D.C. September, 2004, “India Studies in the US,”
Seminar at Indiana University, Bloomington, IN. May 2004,
“International Migration,” Meeting on the World Economic and Social
Survey 2004, Dept. of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations,
New York. May 2004, Discussant at Conference on International
Migration Regimes and Economic Development, Stockholm, Sweden. May
2004, “Constraints on American Power,” Duke University, Durham, NC.
February, 2004, “International Migration Regimes and Economic
Development,” conference of the Expert Group on Development Issues,
Stockholm, Sweden. November, 2003, “International Migration and
Development.” Presentation at Cambridge University workshop on
international migration, Cambridge, England. October 9-10, 2003,
“International Remittances: The New Development Mantra?” presented
at the International Conference on Migrant Remittances” organized
by DFID and World Bank, London, England. January 2003, Plenary
session, Pravasi Bhartiya Divas, Government of India. May 2002,
“Tragedy in Gujarat,” Muslim Students Association, MIT, Cambridge,
MA. November 2001, “International Financial Institutions and
Developing Countries.” MIT, Cambridge, MA. October 2001, “The
Politics of Economic Reform in India.” Center for Strategic and
International Studies, Washington D.C. October 2001, “The
Implications of September 11 on South Asia,” the South Asia seminar
at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. April 2001, “Corruption and
Development,” Queens University, Kingston, Canada. November 2000,
“Should the World Bank be engaged in Anticorruption Activities,”
World Bank, Washington D.C. 2001. Expert Group, Human Development
Report, 2001, UNDP, New York. May 2000, “Explaining the Resilience
of International Financial Institutions.” Swarthmore College,
Swarthmore, PA.
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April 2000, “Sweatshops, Workers, and the Free Market: The Pros
and Cons of International Labor,” Woodbridge Speaker Series,
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. March 2000, India panel,
Economic Growth Center, Yale University, New Haven, CT. 2000, UN
working group on Change in International Organizations, New York.
December 1999, “International Financial Institutions.” MIT,
Cambridge, MA. November 1999, “Labor Standards,” CID Workshop on
“Developing Countries and the New Round of Multilateral Trade
Negotiations,” at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard
University. November 1999, “Public Institutions in India.” CID
conference on “India in the New Millennium: Energy, Environment and
Development,” at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. May 1999,
Workshop on “Reform of International Financial Institutions,”
organized by Oxfam America, Annapolis, MD. April 1999, Harvard
International Development Conference, organized jointly by HBS and
KSG, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. October 1998, “India’s
Nuclear Tests and Sanctions.” Conference on “India and the Nuclear
Question” at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA. October 1998, “Impact of U.S.
Sanctions on India’s Economy.” Annual Peace and Conflict Seminar of
the Institute of World Affairs, Boston, MA. June 1998, “Sanctions
and the Indian Economy.” Asia Society, New York, NY. 1998, “The IMF
and Policy Reform,” paper presented in the Workshop in the
Political Economy of Reform in Developing Countries at Harvard
University, Cambridge, MA. 1998, Human Development Report 1998,
UNDP, New York. 1998, “Democracy in Asia,” Asia Center, Harvard
University, Cambridge, MA. 1998, “Fifty Years of Free India,”
Department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies, Harvard University,
Cambridge, MA.
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CONFERENCES ORGANIZED The Indian Administrative and Regulatory
State. New Delhi. March16-17, 2018. Colossus—The Anatomy of India’s
National Capital Region, Delhi. CASI, University of Pennsylvania.
November 17-18, 2017. Migration and Cognitive Change: Creating a
Transatlantic Research Network. CASI, University of Pennsylvania.
May 30-31, 2017. (Jointly organized with Perry World House,
University of Pennsylvania) Annual Indian Security Studies
Workshop. CASI, University of Pennsylvania. April 7-8, 2017.
Understanding Political Finance in India. CASI, University of
Pennsylvania. June 2-3, 2016. (Jointly organized with the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace) Annual Indian Security Studies
Workshop. CASI, University of Pennsylvania. April 15-16, 2016.
India Political Economy Workshop. CASI, University of Pennsylvania.
December 4-5, 2015. Indian Urban Studies Workshop. CASI, University
of Pennsylvania,. November 16, 2015. Annual Indian Security Studies
Workshop. CASI, University of Pennsylvania. April 10-11, 2015.
Urban Infrastructure Workshop. CASI, University of Pennsylvania.
March 26, 2015. Urban Infrastructure Workshop. CASI, University of
Pennsylvania. November 24, 2014. Political Economy Workshop. CASI,
University of Pennsylvania. June 5-6, 2014. Third Annual Indian
Security Studies Workshop. CASI, University of Pennsylvania. April
11-12, 2014. Indian Demography Workshop. CASI, University of
Pennsylvania. April 3, 2014. (Jointly organized with the
Populations Studies Center at Penn) “Building an Indian State for
the 21st Century,” July 22-26, 2013, Rockefeller Foundation
Bellagio Center.
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April 26, 2013, Conference on “Emerging Markets at the
Crossroads: Challenges, Prospects and Opportunities,” University of
Maryland, Robert H. Smith School of Business, College Park, MD.
Second Annual Indian Security Studies Workshop. CASI, University of
Pennsylvania. April 12-13, 2013. “Celebrating Twenty Years of the
Center for the Advanced Study of India: A Symposium,” New Delhi,
India. November 29-30, 2012. (Jointly organized with the University
of Pennsylvania Institute for the Advanced Study of India) “India:
Two Decades of Transformation,” A CASI 20th Anniversary Symposium,
University of Pennsylvania. September 27, 2012. First Annual Indian
Security Studies Workshop. CASI, University of Pennsylvania. April
13-14, 2012. “Higher Education: New Trends and Challenges,” New
Delhi, India. July 28-29, 2011 (Jointly organized with Center for
Policy Research, New Delhi) Workshop on “Frontline Functionaries of
the Indian State: New Anthropological Perspectives,” at CASI,
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. April 8, 2011.
“Comparing Elections and Electoral System in North American and
India,” co-sponsored by the Departments of Political Science at
Penn and University of British Columbia, University of
Pennsylvania. February 25-26, 2011. Conference on “The Politics of
the Emerging Middle Class in Developing Countries,” Princeton
Institute for International and Regional Studies, Princeton
University, May 22-23, 2009. (Jointly organized with Gay Seidman,
University of Wisconsin) “India and the Cold War, 1947-1991.
Archival Perspectives and Historical Revisions,” Washington, D.C.
May 18-19, 2009. (Jointly organized by the Woodrow Wilson
International Center for Scholars, Center for the Advanced Study of
India and SAIS) “India’s negotiation options in the Climate Change
negotiations,” March 3-5, New Delhi. (Jointly organized with Center
for Policy Research, New Delhi) Workshop for the 13th Finance
Commission of India, Washington, D.C. October 15, 2008. (Jointly
organized with the World Bank). “Dalit Studies Conference,”
University of Pennsylvania. December 3-5, 2008. (with Ram Rawat,
University of Pennsylvania) “Reengineering Engineering Education in
India,” CASI, University of Pennsylvania. January 31-February 1,
2008. (with Sumit Roy, Department of Electrical Engineering,
University of Washington, Seattle)
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“Rule and Reform in the Giants: China and India Compared,”
Harvard University, November 30-December 1, 2007. (with Elizabeth
Perry, Harvard University) “How Can NRIs Improve Indian Health
Policy,” University of Pennsylvania. September 10, 2007. “Social
Capital and Civil Society,” with Robert Putnam (Harvard University)
and Susan Pharr, Harvard University, Talloires, France. June 2001.
“Public Institutions in India: Performance and Design,” with Pratap
Bhanu Mehta, Harvard University. February 2001. “Economic and
Financial Management in the 21st Century,” with Richard Cooper,
Harvard University, Talloires, France. June 1999. “South Asia’s
Nuclear Dilemma,” Harvard University. February 1999.
JOURNAL REFEREE EXPERIENCE Editorial Board: India Review; The
Journal of Globalization and Development
Referee for American Journal of Political Science, American
Political Science Review,
British Journal of Political Science, Business and Politics,
Economic History Review,
International Organization, International Administrative Science
Review, India Review,
Journal of Development Studies, Journal of Human Capital,
Journal of Policy Reform,
Perspectives on Politics, World Development, World Politics.
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DISSERTATION SUPERVISION
Name Year
Defended Institution Department
Current Sumitra Badrinath U. Pennsylvania Political Science
Member Sergio Mukherjee U. Pennsylvania Political Science Chair
Aniruddh Jairam U. Pennsylvania Political Science Chair Jeremy
Springman U. Pennsylvania Political Science Member Joseph Lin U.
Pennsylvania Political Science Member Javier Revelo Rebolledo
U. Pennsylvania Political Science Member
Richard Yu Zeng U. Pennsylvania Political Science Member Past
Prakirti Nangia 2018 U. Pennsylvania Political Science Chair Sudev
Sheth 2018 U. Pennsylvania South Asian Studies Member Matthew
Kavanagh 2017 U. Pennsylvania Political Science Chair Gaurav
Sabharwal 2017 Princeton Economics Member
Michael Collins 2017 U. Pennsylvania South Asian Studies
Member
Emmerich Davies 2016 U. Pennsylvania Political Science Chair
Barret Bradstreet 2016 Princeton U. Political Science
ExternalReader
A Rahman Ford 2015 U. Pennsylvania Political Science Member
Mark Schneider 2014 Columbia U. Political Science Member Abhijit
Visaria 2014 U. Pennsylvania Pop Studies/Demography Member
Neelanjan Sircar 2014 Columbia U. Political Science Member Apporva
Jadhav 2014 U. Pennsylvania Pop Studies/Demography Member Namrata
Tognatta 2014 U. Pennsylvania School of Education Member
Christopher Russell 2014 U. Pennsylvania Political Science Member
Neil Ruiz 2014 MIT Urban Studies Member Milan Vaishnav 2012
Columbia U. Political Science Member Odette Lineau 2009 Harvard
Government Member Nirmala Ravishankar 2007 Harvard Government
Member Michael Rindner 2007 Harvard South Asia Studies Member Wendy
Pearlman 2007 Harvard Government Member Andrew Kennedy 2007 Harvard
Government Member Gabriel Aguilera 2005 Harvard Government Member
David Singer 2004 Harvard Government Member
SENIOR THESIS SUPERVISION (University of Pennsylvania)
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Addavail Coslett, 2006-07 Rahul Reddy, 2008-09 Yashas Vaidya,
2008-09 Michelle Yang, 2009-10 Ann Maria Moreno, 2009-10 Sean A.
Angiolillo, 2010-11 Sasha Riser-Kositsky, 2010-11 Jessica Riegel,
2010-11 Natalie Volpe, 2012-13 Jason Maccabee, 2013-14 Leah
Davidson, 2014-15. Gabrielle Harrigan, 2017-18 TEACHING At
University of Pennsylvania Undergraduate PSCI 010-302 Business and
Politics in Developing Countries PSCI 398 Political Economy of
Modern India PSCI 224 Political Economy of Development Graduate
PSCI 511 Politics and Political Economy of Modern India PSCI 615
Political Economy of Development PSCI 798 International Migration,
Diasporas and Development At University of Texas, Austin
Undergraduate Gov 365N Diasporas, International Migration and
Development Graduate Gov390L Political Economy of Modern India At
Harvard Undergraduate
Historical Studies A15 Politics and Society in the making of
Modern India
Gov90el International Financial Institutions
Gov90ge States and Markets in Developing Countries
Gov90hh Diasporas, International Migration and Development
Gov1100 Political Economy of Development
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Gov1279 Political Economy of Modern India
Graduate
Gov2005 Comparative Politics Field Seminar
Gov2275 Politics and Reform in the Giants: India and China
Compared
Gov3006 Performance of Democracy Graduate Research Workshop
UNIVERSITY SERVICE At University of Pennsylvania Member, Committee
on Teaching Evaluations (2016-17) Member Dean's India Planning
Group Member of Perry World House's Urbanization, Migration, and
Demography guidance group, 2015-present. Member Diversity
Committee, 2013-14. Member Global Engagement Working Group for the
University’s Middle States Accreditation, 2012-13. Member, Global
Initiatives Strategic Planning Group, Office of Vice-Provost for
Global Initiatives, 2011-present. Member, Penn’s University
Scholars Program Council. Member, Comparative Politics Search
Committee, Department of Political Science, 2011-12. Member,
Comparative Politics Search Committee, Department of Political
Science, 2010-11. Member, Africa Search Committee, Department of
Political Science, 2007-08. Comparative Politics Comprehensive Exam
Committee. Chair, 2007; Member 2009. Organized a seminar series for
the Provost on International Development, 2007-08. Organized a
seminar series with South Asia studies. Organized lectures and
events jointly with the Law School, Wharton, Engineering and
Medicine.
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Created and organized a range of student programs at CASI and in
India. At Harvard Member, South Asia Executive Committee, Harvard
University, 1997-2005. Co-chair, South Asia Seminar, Harvard
University, 1997-2005. Member, Asia Center Grants Award Committee,
Harvard University, 1998-2005. Member, Paul Williams Selection
Committee, Harvard University, 1999-2005. Member, Asia Center
Executive Committee, Harvard University, 1999-2005. Faculty
Associate, Center for International Development, Kennedy School of
Government, Harvard University, 1999-2005. Member, Senior Common
Room, Currier House, Harvard University, 1999-2005. Member,
“Globalization and Migration,” faculty group, Harvard University,
2001-02. Member, WCFIA Fellows Program Selection Committee,
1998-2001. Member, Undergraduate Concentration Committee,
Department of Government, Harvard University, 1998- 2001. Member,
“India Innovation” project team, Belfer Center, Kennedy School of
Government, Harvard University, 2001. Member, University Committee
on Environment (UCE) India Project team, Harvard University, 2000.
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES Member, G-20 Advisory Committee,
Government of India Non-Resident Fellow, Center for Global
Development, Washington D.C.
Member, Brookings Institution-National Council of Applied
Economic Research (New Delhi), India Panel.
Member, Academic Council, Ashoka University
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Member, International Board of Advisors, Jindal School of Public
Policy and Government, India
Member, Advisory Board, Lend-A-Hand India.
Member, Global Indian Knowledge Network, Government of India,
October 2009-present.
Program Committee Co-chair (with Andre Sapir), Global
Development Network (GDN) Annual Conference (with Andre Sapir),
Prague 2010. Expert consultations, High Level Commission on the
Modernization of World Bank Group Governance (also known as the
“Zedillo Commission”), World Bank, Washington, DC, April 6, 2009.
Member, Social Science Research Council International Committee on
Migration and Development Research, 2006-present. Member Steering
Committee of Global Development Network’s global research project,
“Development on the Move: Measuring and Optimizing the Economic and
Social Impacts of Migration.” Member, Woodrow Wilson Center
Scholars Selection Committee, 2007. Member, APSA Pool Award
Selection Committee, 2007. Member, Board of Directors, Worldteach,
Cambridge, MA, 2002-2005. Member, External Advisory and Review
Committee of World Bank Report on “What Happened in the 1990s?”
2003-2004. Advisor, MacArthur Foundation Program on Migration and
Development, 2004. Referee, Grant Proposal for MacArthur Foundation
Program on Global Security and Sustainability, 2004. Member,
Advisory Board, Human Development Report, 2002. Member, High-Level
Working Group on Institutional Reform in Global Financial
Governance, University College, Oxford (U.K.), December, 2000.
Referee, Grant Proposal for MacArthur Foundation Program on Global
Security and Sustainability, 1998.
Books“Sharing the Spoils: Taxing International Human Capital
Flows,” International Tax and Public Finance, 11: 663-693, 2004.
(with Mihir Desai and John McHale)(with Sanjay Jain and Sharun
Mukund)“Do As I Say Not As I Do: A Critique of G-7 Proposals on
Reforming the MDBs,” in Gustav Ranis, James Vreeland, and Stephen
Kosack (eds.), Globalization and the Nation State: The Impact of
the IMF and the World Bank, New York: Routledge, 2006:
452-482.“Sojourns and Software: Internationally Mobile Human
Capital and High-Tech Industry Development in India, Ireland and
Israel,” in Ashish Arora and Alfonso Gambardella (eds.), From
Underdogs to Tigers: The Rise and Growth of the Software Industry
in So...(with John McHale)“Conditionality and its Alternatives” in
Ariel Buria (ed.), The IMF and World Bank at Sixty, London: Anthem
Press, 2005: 31-57.“World Bank and Poverty,” in Gwendolyn Mink and
Alice O’Connor (eds.), Poverty in the United States: An
Encyclopedia of History, Politics, and Policy, ABC-CLIO, November
2004.Comment on Kevin O’Rourke and Richard Sinnott “Migration
Flows: Political Economy of Migration and the Empirical
Challenges,” in Proceedings of Annual World Bank Conference on
Development Economics, Paris 2003.Dhananjay M. PaiThe Dalit
Research Program including the December 4 to 6, 2008 “Dalits
Studies Conference.” Funding period: February 2008 through December
2008. Amount: $65,000.August 2001, “Risk and Reward: Agency,
Contracts and the Expansion of IMF Conditionality.” Paper presented
at Annual Meetings of the American Political Science Association,
San Francisco, CA.April 2001, “Risk and Reward: Agency, Contracts
and the Expansion of IMF Conditionality.” Paper presented to the
Duke University International Political Economy Seminar, Durham,
NC.PANELIST
June 2005. “World Bank History Project,” at Workshop on
“Documenting UN History: Comparing Methods, Findings, and Lessons,”
UN Dag Hammarskjöld Library, the UN University (UNU), the Academic
Council on UN Studies (ACUNS), and the Ralph Bunche
Institut...CONFERENCES ORGANIZEDJOURNAL REFEREE
EXPERIENCETEACHING
UndergraduateHistorical Studies A15 Politics and Society in the
making of Modern IndiaGov90el International Financial
InstitutionsGov90ge States and Markets in Developing
CountriesGov1279 Political Economy of Modern IndiaGov3006
Performance of Democracy Graduate Research WorkshopOTHER
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES