Indranil De

Biography

Dr. Indranil De is working as Assistant Professor from July 2013 in the area of Social Sciences and Economics. His areas of interest are institutional economics, political economy, transaction cost economics and applied econometrics. Dr. De is also an Associate Editor of International Journal of Rural Management which is managed by IRMA and published by Sage. He is the convener of library committee at IRMA from 2016. Between 2014 and 2016 he was Admissions Coordinator of the institute. Prior to joining IRMA he worked as Assistant Professor of Economics in BITS Pilani K. K. Birla Goa Campus from January 2012. He taught courses as Microeconomics, Econometrics and Project Appraisal. He also worked as Assistant Professor with International Management Institute-Kolkata for a brief period. He holds a Ph.D degree from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He worked on Fiscal Decentralisation and Access to Basic Services in Rural India with Reference to Water Supply and Sanitation in West Bengal. He has also completed M.Phil and MA in Economics from the same university. His title of dissertation in M.Phil was Water Resource Management in India with Special Reference to Major and Medium Irrigation Systems. He has undergone a training programme Global Colloquium on Participant-Centered Learning (GloColl) from Harvard Business School, Boston, USA. Dr. De has also worked for more than four years with renowned research institutions and important projects. He has worked with National Council of Applied Economic Research and Indian Council for Research in International Economic Relations. His research work has mainly addressed the socio-economic developmental issues and related government policies. He has also worked with the industry for three and half years. In his capacity as Assistant Manager in HSBC Technology and Services he has contributed to Propensity Modeling and Marketing Mix Modeling.

Research Interest

Institutional Economics, Political Economy, Urban Studies, Econometrics