N.R. Bhanumurthy is currently a Professor at the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP), New Delhi, India. Prior to joining the NIPFP, he worked as Assistant and Associate Professor at the Institute of Economic Growth (IEG), Delhi. He has worked as a macroeconomist at UNESCAP, Bangkok and the UNDP Regional Centre for the Asia-Pacific region, Colombo. He has been a Visiting Fellow at the Maison des sciences de l’homme, Paris, France, and at McGill University, Montreal, Canada. He has also been a consultant to the ILO, the World Bank, and the Asian Development Bank. Currently, he is Secretary of the Indian Econometric Society and a Managing Trustee of the Indian Economic Association Trust for Research and Development. K. Shanmugan is currently working as an Associate Professor at the M. S. University of Baroda, India. He is also the Treasurer of the Indian Econometric Society (TIES), New Delhi. He has chaired numerous conferences and seminars organized by some of the most prestigious institutions in India and has 27 years teaching experience. Shriram Nerlekar is a faculty of Finance at the Savitribai Phule Pune University (SPPU), India. He is currently serving as Director, Institute of Management Education Research and Training (IMERT), Pune. He has chaired numerous academic and administrative committees formed by SPPU. He is the recipient of the ‘Best Professor in Financial Management Award’ (awarded in 2010 by Mumbai-based Business School Affaire’s Dewang Mehta Business School Awards) and of the ‘Young Achiever Award’ (awarded in 2012 by Mumbai-based World Education Congress). Sandeep Hegade is the Founder Director of the Centre for Advanced Studies in Policy Research, Pune. He is the Editor-in-Chief of IMERT’s journal Arthkalp – Journal of Finance & Economics. He is the recipient of the National Research Fellowship – BANRF (Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar National Research Fellowships) at BARTI (Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Research & Training Institute), Pune. He is a researcher, author and blogger on various topics related to finance and economics.
