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FACULTY
Professor
Chairperson, Fellow Programme in Management
Chairperson, Centre for Excellence for Urban Development
Ph.D., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA, 1987
M.Sc.(Agriculture). G.B.Pant University of Agriculture & Technology, Pantnagar, India, 1983
B.Sc.(Ag Mark and Coop), University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore, India, 1980
Research Areas:
Evaluation of National Commodity Exchanges; Policy Impact on Technology Adoption in Agriculture; Asymmetric Information in Agricultural Markets
Recent Consulting:
Consultant to the following:
State and Central governments, commodity boards
Cooperative Marketing Federation
The Ford Foundation
The World Bank
WHO, ICA and UNDP
Academic Positions:
IIM Bangalore: April 2003-present
Visiting Faculty, Centre for Public Policy, IIM Bangalore, India, August 2002- to April 2003
Professor, IIM Ahmedabad, India, July 1996 - July 2002
Associate Professor, IIM Ahmedabad, India, July 1992-June 1996
Assistant Professor, IIM Ahmedabad, India, May 1988-June 1992
Visiting Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, February 1988-April 1988
Research assistant, International Soybean Program (INTSOY), October 1986 - December 1987
Summer Assistant, the World Bank, Washington, D.C., USA, June 1986 - September 1986
Graduate Assistant, Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, September 1983 - June 1986
Corporate / Public Sector Leadership:
Director, Board of Agriculture Insurance Company of India Limited
Member, International Association of Agricultural Economists
Member, Indian Society of Agricultural Economists
Member, Operations Research Society of India
Member, Indian Society for Agribusiness Management
Member, International Institute of Forecasters
Awards:
Citicorp-Cornell Multimedia Fellowship, Cornell University, 2000
Honorable mention for the paper Econometric Modeling of Indian Silk Sector at the XIV Triennial Conference of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies, 1996
Significant Publications:
1. Competitiveness and Bound Tariff Requirements of Indian Agricultural Commodities, New Delhi, Oxford and IBH Publishing Company, 2004
2. Assessing the Impact of Irrigation Management Transfer, New Delhi, Oxford and IBH Publishing Company 2002
3. Econometric Modeling of the Indian Cotton Industry. New Delhi, Oxford and IBH Publishing Company, 2001
4. Irrigation Management Transfer: Policies, Process and Performance, New Delhi, Oxford and IBH Publishing Company, 1999
5. Management of Irrigation Systems: The cases of Meshwo and Phophal in Gujarat, India, IIM Ahmedabad, India, 1995