Mahendra Dev
director
banking
Kotak Mahindra Bank
India
Biography
Prof. S. Mahendra Dev, PhD from the Delhi School of Economics, aged 59 years is currently Director and Vice Chancellor, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR), Mumbai, India. He was Chairman of the Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices (CACP), Govt. of India, Delhi. He was Director, Centre for Economic and Social Studies, Hyderabad for 9 years during 1999 to 2008. He has done his Post-doctoral research at Yale University and was faculty member at the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai for 11 years. He has been a member of several government committees including the Prime Minister's Task Force on Employment and Rangarajan Commission on Financial Inclusion. He has received honors for eminence in public service. He is the Chairman of the Committee on Terms of Trade on agriculture constituted by the Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India. He was a member and Acting Chairman of the National Statistical Commission in the rank of Minister of State, Government of India. He received prestigious Malcolm Adiseshiah Award for outstanding research work on development studies. He is on the Board of Trustees of International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Washington D.C.
Research Interest
banking
