Keshab Das

Biography

Keshab Das holds M.Phil. (Applied Economics) and Ph.D. (Economics) degrees from the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi through the Centre for Development Studies, Trivandrum. He is a recipient of the VKRV Rao Prize in Social Sciences (Economics) for the year 2004 (http://www.isec.ac.in/vkrvraoprize.htm). He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Journalism and Mass Communications from the Berhampur University, Odisha.

Research Interest

He has undertaken CNRS Research Missions to the Netherlands and Italy and CNRS-British Academy Research Mission to the United Kingdom concerning issues on SME competitiveness and regional development in Asian developing countries. He had been empanelled as an Indian Council of Cultural Relations (ICCR) Chair Professor in Economics (2015-16). He has undertaken research assignments sponsored by various Indian Government Ministries (Industry; Science and Technology; Rural Development; Human Resource Development; and Environment and Forests); Planning Commission; Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR), New Delhi; Government of Gujarat; International Commission of Jurists; UNICEF; UNIDO; ILO; Ford Foundation; University of Sussex; French Ministry of Research; IWMI-Tata Water Policy Program; Centre for Environment Education; Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation; Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA), Bangkok; International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Canada; National Agency for Research on AIDS and Viral Hepatitis (ANRS), Paris, France; Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), UK; Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), Ottawa, Canada; and National Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIHSS), Johannesburg, South Africa.