Academic Profile
PhD from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, 2005
MA (Economics) from Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, 1996
BA (Pune University), 1993
Awards
UGC Minor Project in 2017
National Eligibility Test for Lectureship by University Grants Commission, 1998
State Eligibility for Lectureship by Government of Maharashtra, 1995
Teaching Assistantship by IIT Bombay from 1999 to 2003
Nominated for the the 62nd International Banking Summer School, New Delhi in 2009
Teaching Experience
Adjunct Faculty in Economics at Jyoti Dalal School of Liberal Arts
Visiting Faculty, NMIMS SBM, Mumbai
Mentor, Guru at Great Learning (Jan 2022 to January 2024)
Adjunct Faculty, IBS, Mumbai (July 208 to June 2021)
Assistant Professor and Head of the Department, Guru Nanak College of Arts, Science and Commerce, Mumbai, India (July 2013 to April 2017)
Faculty, National Institute of Industrial Engineering, Mumbai (October 2003 to June 2005)
Lecturer, Narsee Monjee College of Commerce and Economics, Mumbai (November 1997 to December 1998)
Industry Experience
Senior Economist and Vice President, National Commodities and Derivatives Exchange (April 2010 to March 2013)
Deputy Director, Indian Institute of Banking & Finance, Mumbai (October 2005 to April 2010)
Media
Columnist for Financial Express (June 2010 to March 2013)
Columnist for Femina (October 2006 to April 2010)
Business Correspondent, Bennett Coleman & Company (June 1996 to February 1998)
Publications
Do ‘Motives' behind FDI Flows have Implications for their effects on the Host Country Co-authored with Vijay T.M in ICFAI Journal of Applied Economics, May 2006
FII Inflows to India: Their Effect on Stock Market Liquidity and Volatility, ICFAI Journal of Applied Finance, Vol # 10, No7, July 2004
Capital Inflows to India: Implications for Overheating and the Monetary Policy Response, Indian Journal of Economics, # 337, Part-2, Vol LXXXV, October 2004
Capital Inflows to India: Implications for Economic Growth, in Economic and Political Weekly, Vol XL No 21, p2183-2189, May 2005
Pulses Productivity in India: A Perspective, Conference Proceedings of Conference on ‘Know Your Pulses’, August 2016
Accounting for Unpaid Work: An International Perspective’(2016) in An International Journal of Commerce, Economics and Management, Vol: 2, No: 2, Special Issue Part 1, ISSN No. 2394 -4560, Rishabh Publishing House, Mumbai, May 2016
‘Potential for Agricultural Sector Reform: What Markets Can Do?’ in India Commodity Year Book 2013, Edited by Sanjay Kaul, Ane Books Pvt. Ltd, New Delhi
How have commodity futures markets benefited the farmers- some evidence from India’, in The Euromoney Derivatives Handbook 2012/2013
The Significance of Deliveries in Indian Commodity Exchanges co-authored with Ramesh Iyer in Swiss Derivatives Review (2012), Issue # 49- Summer 2012
Salient aspects of the regulation of commodity futures market in India’ in Swiss Derivatives Review (2012), Issue # 48- Spring 2012
‘Capital Flows into India’ in Economic Reforms & Growth in India (2011) edited by Pulapre Balakrishnan, Orient Blackswan, New Delhi, 2011
‘The Role of Information in Commodity Market and Trading’ in India Commodity Year Book -2012, Ane Books Private Ltd., New Delhi, 2012
From the Margin to the Centre: Case study of a Self-Help Group of Physically Handicapped Women at Panmagrul Village, in ‘Women’s Self Help Groups- Restructuring Socio-Economic Development’ (2011) edited by D. Parthasarathy, Thanksy Thekkekara and Veena Poonacha, Dominant Publishers and Distributors, New Delhi
The Conundrum of Wholesale Prices in India in CAB Calling (2010), Reserve Bank of India
Conference Papers
Employment in the Financial Sector- Creative Destruction- A Case Study (2019) in the 3rd International Conference on Finance and Economics organised by IBS, Mumbai, published in the Conference Proceedings by ELK Asia Pacific Journals, ISBN: 978-81-933908-2-5
Recent Trends in Growth and Development of Nationalised Banks- Regional Spread of Banking: Paper accepted for presentation at the National Banking Conference and Research Seminar organized by the Indian Bank at Chennai between 10-11 August 2007
Women's Access to Credit and Markets, Background paper presented at a two-day seminar on the same theme held at Pune between 22nd and 24th April 2005 organized by MAVIM and YASHADA
Capital Inflows to India in the Nineties: Implications for Overheating and the Monetary Policy Response: Accepted for Presentation at the 9th Australasian Macroeconomics Workshop held at the ANU, Canberra between 12thto 15thApril 2004
India's Financial Market Integration: A Comparative Study: Accepted for presentation at the 5th Macroeconomic & International Finance Conference at Rethymno, Greece (May 2001)
Measuring Financial Integration: A Comparative Study of Conventional & Alternative Indicators: Presented at the 37th Annual Conference of The Indian Econometric Society at Surat (April 2001)
Capital Flows to India: Policy Implications, co-authored with Dr
Pushpa Trivedi and presented at the 36th Annual Conference of The Indian Econometric Society at Indore (February 2000), Won Minor Research Project from University of Mumbai for 2016-17
