Biography

My undergraduate qualification is in Mechanical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras and I have worked as a Manufacturing Manager for Unilever in India. In 2010, I decided to change my career path and study economics as I found that I had an aptitude for research and was interested in issues relevant to the social and economic problems facing India. I completed a Graduate Diploma in Economics and an MPhil in Economic Research at Cambridge and am now in the third year of my PhD. My research interests lie in the fields of Political Economics, Development Economics and Applied Microeconomics, more specifically in looking at the social, political and economic causes and effects of conflict in developing countries, the political economy of control and use of natural resources in developing countries and issues of identity in the context of politics and conflict. I am currently a visiting fellow at Université de Namur, Belgium as part of the PODER network.

Links

http://azimpremjiuniversity.edu.in/SitePages/anand-shrivastava.aspx
https://sites.google.com/site/anandshrivastava1984