Pradeep Agrawal

Pradeep Agrawal is Professor of Economics and Head of the RBI Endowment Unit at the Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi. He has also been the Director of the Center for Research and Development at the Kazakhstan Institute of Management, Ecoomics and Strategic Research (KIMEP), Almaty, Kazakhstan (2003–04).

Professor Agrawal obtained his Ph.D. from the Stanford University, USA in 1987 and has 21 years of research and teaching experience in USA, India, Kazakhstan and other countries. He has co-authored three major books on Economic Reforms in India and East Asia. These include Policy Regimes and Industrial Competitiveness: A Comparative Study of East Asia and India and Economic Restructuring in East Asia and India: Perspectives on Policy Reform. He has published numerous articles in refereed international journals.

Professor Agrawal was the Editor General of the Central Asian Journal of Management, Economics and Social Research (2003–04). He has been a referee for a number of international and national journals. He has also been an evaluator of research proposals for major international research organizations. He has undertaken consultancies and research projects for the World Bank, USA; International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Canada; Department for International Development, UK; and several other organizations. He has also been chosen a Fellow to several American, Canadian and Indian Fellowship programmes.