Dr. Indradeep Ghosh is the Executive Director of Dvara Research. He has a PhD from MIT, an MA from Cambridge University (where he won the Adam Smith Prize given to the top graduating student in the university), and a BA from St. Stephen’s College, all in Economics. After finishing his PhD, Dr. Ghosh pursued an academic career for more than a decade, first at Haverford College in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and then at the Meghnad Desai Academy of Economics in Mumbai, India. At Dvara Research, he works with the Board to drive its research agenda and leads research priorities in coordination with the practice heads.
Dr. Ghosh is a multi-disciplinary scholar and thinker, and has published his work in peer-reviewed journals in economics and other disciplines. When thinking about public policy problems, he prefers to combine his formal economics training with insights from the other social sciences and also the humanities. Dr. Ghosh interfaces regularly with policymakers and regulators to advocate for sensible pro-poor financial inclusion and social protection policies. In 2020, Dr. Ghosh led the drafting team for the Social Stock Exchange report (published by SEBI’s Working Group on the Social Stock Exchange). Currently, he is serving on SEBI’s Advisory Committee for Securities Market Inclusion Index, and on the Insolvency & Bankruptcy Board of India’s Research Guidance Group. He continues to occasionally publish in peer-reviewed journals such as the Economic & Political Weekly (see here, under Special Articles) and the Journal of Cultural Economy (see here). Recently, Indradeep has written about the relation between household level economic activity and macro-aggregate economic activity, and about women’s financial inclusion.
