Jal Jeevan Mission Chair Professor
Professor Gopal Naik is the JJM Chair Professor at IIMB. He is also the Senior Fellow at the Centre for Public Policy at IIMB. Prof. Gopal Naik’s research focuses on agricultural and environmental economics, rural development, and technology adoption. He is the recipient of the Dr. D.K. Desai Award and the American Agricultural Economics Association Award. He has held consultancy positions in national and international organisations and has contributed significantly to government committees and policymaking. He also spearheaded the Unnat Bharath Abhiyan, and led the development of SAMIE, a tele-education project recognized with the WSIS 2015 Award.
A chemical engineer and ecological economist, Dr Deepak Malghan is recognized for his work at the interface of scale theory and thermodynamics in ecological economics. His research focuses on the proportional relationship between the economy and the ecosystem, earning him accolades such as the 2015 VKRV Rao Prize in Social Sciences and the 2023 T N Khoshoo Memorial Award. Serving as an editor at Ecological Economics from 2018 to 2023, Dr Malghan has contributed to the field’s advancement. His affiliations with the Stockholm Environment Institute and his research on urban hydrology underscore his commitment to translational ecological economics. His lab at IIMB pioneers methods for analysing ethnic inequality and stratification, applying interdisciplinary tools to study ethnic politics and environmental injustice. of efficiency.
Dr Aditya Shrinivas specializes in development economics. His research focuses on food security, health, and nutrition outcomes. He has a Ph.D. in Applied Economics from the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign.
Consultant
M Rajendra was Administrative Officer at IIMB and was superannuated in 2020.
Post Doctoral Researcher
Prem Shankar Mishra has a Ph.D. in Development Studies from the Institute of Social and Economic Change (ISEC), Bangalore. He holds dual master’s in Population Studies and Geography from IIPS, Mumbai and BHU, Varanasi, respectively. His areas of research interest are population, environment and development issues, health economics, public health and system research, WASH, and MCH and nutrition.
Senior Research Associate
Prerona Sengupta is a senior researcher. She has an MSc in Behavioural and Economic Science from the University of Warwick, UK. Her research interests include monitoring and evaluating interventions, designing effective interventions based on behavioural insights for effective implementation of policies, water economics and management, WASH, reducing gender disparity in pay and opportunities, and reducing prejudice and stigma associated with gender roles.
Junior Research Associate
A qualitative researcher, she holds an integrated M.A. in English Studies and minor in Development Studies from IIT Madras. She worked previously as an analyst at I-PAC, Hyderabad. Her research areas include digital humanities, development studies, cultural studies, and gender and sexuality studies.
Junior Research Associate
A researcher proficient in both quantitative and qualitative methodologies, she has a master’s in economics from B R Ambedkar School of Economics University, Bangalore. Her expertise lies in data analysis, structuring, manipulation, and comprehensive research and reporting.
Technical Assistant
He holds a master’s in environmental sciences from Madurai Kamaraj University, and a Post Graduate Diploma in Environmental Law and Policy from National Law University and WWF, India. He has worked at Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, and Indian Institute of Technology Madras, in positions aligned with SDG6. His research interests include environmental monitoring and management, SDGs, water policy, security and governance, and renewable energy technologies. He is trained in Laboratory Quality Management System and Internal Audit as per IS/ISO/IEC 17025:2017.
Technical Assistant
Esha Chakraborty is an IISc Bangalore certified data scientist with a specialized expertise in Geographic Information Systems. She completed her MTech. in Geomatics Engineering from IIT (ISM), Dhanbad. Her focus areas are data analysis, data visualization and gaining actionable insights from data.