Advisory Team

Apart from top scholarly journals including Nature and American Economic Review, his research has been cited in popular magazines such as The Economist and several news outlets. He has been a consultant with several organizations including the World Bank, Food and Agricultural Organization, World Health Organization, European Commission, International Trade Center, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, International Agricultural Trade Research Consortium, the Commonwealth of Nations, Price Water House Coopers, Bournemouth University, Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, KPMG, World Resources Institute and the governments of India, the United States, Finland, Turkey and others. He is a board member of Young Professionals Chronic Diseases Network and the network for Governments’ Integration through FTAs (GIFTA) project. He is also an Advisor, ARTNet, United Nations ESCAP, Bangkok and a Fellow, SANEM, Dhaka. He can be contacted at badri@purdue.edu. badrig@uw.edu and badrinarayanang@gmail.com

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Areas of expertise:

Public policy, project management, technical databased management, strategic leadership, quality of life measurement, nonprofit management, IDP issues, immigration policies, population health, program evaluation, grant proposal writing, community based research, gender issues, poverty, literacy, economic development, labour market, community consultation, trusteeship, demography,forecasting, collaboration, human crises intervention and assessment, GIS mapping, sampling survey methods, etc.

Srimanta has participated in a special mission to Sudan with the International Organization for Migration (IOM) where he was responsible for the successful implementation of the Monitoring and Tracking activities of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Sudan. He was a World Health Organization Fellow at Beijing University and has worked as a population research expert at the Anhui ( China). In 2011, he was awarded a volunteer service award from the Ontario government for his 5 years of dedicated volunteer service in the South Asian community in Canada. Srimanta is a member of the Editorial Review Board of Applied Research in Book:

Comparison of Gender Gap in Education, Employment and Health in India and China ( December 2015)

Sanchita’s relevant research experience has been on trade in good and services, analysis of tariffs and trade barriers, rules of origin, standards, foreign direct investment, public procurement, intellectual property rights, regulatory and policy issues in different countries e.g. India, Indonesia and African countries, EU-India trade & economic relations, World Trade Organisation (WTO), Free Trade Agreements (FTAs), competition policy, trade & environment, trade facilitation, China-South Korea and Ukraine-Russia trade relations, Generalised System of Preferences schemes of the US and EU, sectoral policy issues in metals, chemicals and fibre, MSMEs, private sector competitiveness, gender inclusiveness, regional value chains, special economic zones, green freight and logistics, e-commerce and, GMS and ASEAN integration & connectivity.
In addition, Sanchita has published literary and travel writing & fine arts photography; a trustee of a charitable educational trust in Kolkata, India and an investor in two start up entrepreneurial ventures in India related to Himalayan travel.

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Journal of Consumer Marketing, Social Marketing Quarterly, International Journal of Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Marketing, Journal of Global Marketing. Economic and Political Weekly, He has co-authored chapters in two edited volumes including India Development Report 2011, and has one book to his credit. He had taught at premier management institutions such as Indian IIM Indore, IIM Kolkata, IIM Kozhikode, IIM Rohtak, Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies, Mumbai; and has taught in various Executive Training Programmes/Workshops. He has consulting experience of marketing research projects for corporates, and research projects of government & non-government organizations. Dr. Saini can be contacted at gksaini@tiss.edu or gksaini81@gmail.com

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