Arun M Balaji
Email: arun23phd@cds.ac.in / arunbalaji1898@gmail.com
Webpage: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Mx-YRRIAAAAJ&hl=en
Date of Joining: 16-08-2023
Research Interest: Informal Sector, Political Economy, Labour Studies, Development studies.
Supervisor(s) : Prof. Beena P. L.& Prof. Vinoj Abraham
Committee Members : Prof. Vijayabaskar, MIDS & Dr. Thiagu Ranganathan
Bhatraju Jithin Sree
Email:jithinsree1305@gmail.com
Webpage: https://sites.google.com/view/bhatraju-jithin-sree/bio
Date of Joining: 16 August 2023
Research Interest: Macroeconomics:Growth, Political Economy, Insitutional Economics
Supervisor(s):Prof. Parameswaran M
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Mahitha k
Email: mahithak23phd@gmail.com
mahithakkodakkad@gmail.com
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Date of Joining:16th August 2023
Research Interest: Gender, Labour Market, Education
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Manish
Email: manish23phd@cds.ac.in
Webpage: https://sites.google.com/view/manishphd/home
Date of Joining: 16 August 2023
Research Interest: International Trade, Global Value Chains and Environment
Supervisor(s): Prof. C Veeramani
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Nafseena R
Email:nafseena23phd@gmail.com
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Date of Joining: 16th August 2023
Research Interest: Development Economics, Inequality
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Sarath U V
Email:sarath23phd@cds.ac.in
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Date of Joining: August 16, 2023
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Subranil Nandi
Email: subranil23phd@cds.ac.in
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Date of Joining: August 16, 2023
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Ahsana
Email: ahsana22phd@cds.ac.in
Webpage:
Date of Joining: October, 2022
Research Interest: Development Economics, Education Economics, Labour Economics.
Supervisor(s): Prof Vinoj Abraham, Dr Ritika Jain
Committee Members: Prof N.V. Varghese , Prof Thiagu Ranganathan
Anna Maria Abraham
Email: annamariaabraham5@gmail.com / anna22phd@cds.ac.in
Webpage:
Date of Joining: 10-10-2022
Research Interest: Digital inequality, inequality of opportunities
Supervisor(s): Prof. Suraj Jacob
Committee Members: Prof.Nandita Mathews (UNU MERIT) & Prof.Thiagu Ranganathan(CDS)
Ayana Krishna D
Email: ayanadkrishna@gmail.com
Webpage:
Date of Joining: October 2022
Research Interest: Gender, Climate change, Environment, Displacement
Supervisor(s): Prof. Praveena Kodoth & Prof. Suraj Jacob
Committee Members: Prof. Nitya Rao & Prof. Thiagu Ranganathan
Jayalakshmi T A
Email: jayalakshmita1999@gmail.com
Webpage:
Date of Joining: 10 October, 2022
Research Interest: Macroeconomics, Monetary Policy
Supervisor(s): Dr. Gogol Mitra Thakur & Dr. Srikanta Kundu
Committee Members: Prof. Subrata Guha & Prof. M. Parameswaran
Kalayath Mohamed Shemil
Email: shemilkalayath@gmail.com / kalayath22phd@cds.ac.in
Webpage:
Date of Joining: 10-10- 2022
Research Interest: Political economy, Agricultural markets, Agrarian Studies, Economic History
Supervisor(s): Prof. Thiagu Ranganathan
Committee Members: Dr. Abhilash T, Dr. Aniket Aga

Pawan Kumar
Email:pawaneco19@gmail.com/ pawan22phd@cds.ac.in
Webpage:-
Date of Joining: 10 October 2022
Research Interest: Agricultural Economics, Environmental Economics, Climate Change
Supervisor(s): Prof. Thiagu Ranganathan & Prof. M. Parameswaran
Committee Members: Dr Anubhab Pattanayak (IIT Kharagpur) & Dr Kirtti Ranjan Paltasingh (Ravenshaw University)

Shabnam T P
Email: shabnamtp06@gmail.com
Webpage:
Date of Joining: 10 October 2022
Research Interest: Migration, Citizenship, Labour, Informality, Development
Supervisor(s): Prof. Beena P L, Prof. Vinoj Abraham
Committee Members: Dr. Abhilash (CDS, Kerala), Prof. Biju Kumar (JNU, New Delhi)
Abhinav Surya L T
Email: abhinav.surya.cds@gmail.com
Webpage: abhinavsurya24.wordpress.com
Date of Joining: 27 September 2021
Research Interest: Industrial Economics, Small and Medium Industries, Political Economy, Labour Economics, Heterodox Economics
Supervisor(s): Prof. Beena PL
Committee Members: Prof. Ramaa Vasudevan; Prof. M Vijayabaskar
Mayur Jeevan Kamble
Email:mjkamble26@gmail.com / mayur21phd@cds.ac.in
Webpage : https://mayurworld7.wordpress.com/about-2/
Date of Joining: 27 September 2021.
Research Interest: Development Economics, Health Economics, Child welfare, Child Nutrition, Institutional Economics.
Supervisor(s): Dr.Hrushikesh Mallick
Committee Members: Dr. Zakaria Siddiqui, Dr Sinjini Mukherjee
Mohammed Anfas K
Email: mohammed21phd@cds.ac.in
Webpage:
Date of Joining: 27 September 2021
Research Interest: Gig economy, Labour process, Future of work
Supervisor(s): Prof. Vinoj Abraham
Committee Members: Prof. Balaji Parthasarathy and Prof. Babu P Ramesh

Richa Baruah
Email: richa21phd@cds.ac.in
Webpage:
Date of Joining: 27 September 2021
Research Interest:
Supervisor(s): Prof. Vinoj Abraham
Committee Members: Prof. Deepak K. Mishra, JNU & Prof. Praveena Kodoth
Amresh Senapati
Email: amresh20phd@cds.ac.in
Webpage:
Date of Joining: 04/01/2021
Research Interest: Development Economics, Demographic Economics, Gender Economics, International Macro Economics
Supervisor(s): Prof. Vinoj Abraham
Committee Members: Prof. Udaya Shankar Mishra (IIPS), Prof. Praveena Kodoth (CDS)

Ashish Biswas
Email:ashish20phd@cds.ac.in
Webpage :
Date of Joining: 4 January 2021
Research Interest:
Supervisor(s): Prof. P. L. Beena
Committee Members: Prof. Surajit Mazumdar, CESP, JNU and Dr. Atulan Guha, IIM Kashipur
Devika Dileepkumar
Email: devika20phd@cds.ac.in
Webpage:
Date of Joining: 4 January 2021
Research Interest: Behavioral finance, stock market, investor behavior, time series analysis
Supervisor(s): Dr. Gogol Mitra Thakur (CDS) & Dr. Srikanta Kundu (IIM Sirmaur)
Committee Members: Prof. Thiagu Ranganathan (CDS) & Dr. Parthajit Kayal (Madras School of Economics)

Gayathri P
Email: gayathri20phd@cds.ac.in
Webpage:
Date of Joining: 4 January 2021
Research Interest: Equality of Opportunity, Fairness, Statistical learning
Supervisor(s): Prof. Thiagu Ranganathan (CDS), Dr. Srikanta Kundu(IIM-Sirmaur)
Committee Members: Prof. Sripad Motiram (UMass Boston), Prof. Vinoj Abraham (CDS)
Himansu Sekhar Thapa
Email: himansu.cds@gmail.com
himansu20phd@cds.ac.in
Webpage:https://www.linkedin.com/in/himansu-sekhar-thapa-241668134/
Date of Joining: 4 January 2021
Research Interest: Agriculture Economics, Climate Change, Rural Development, Development Economics
Supervisor(s): Prof. Thiagu Ranganathan
Committee Members: Prof. Srijit Mishra (HCU), Prof. Sarthak Gaurav (IIT Bombay)
Shakuntala Ghadai
Email: shakuntala20phd@cds.ac.in
Date of Joining: 4 January 2021
Research Interest: Gender, caste, food security, and health economics.
Supervisor(s): Prof. Thiagu Ranganathan & Dr. Tirtha Chatterjee
Committee Members: Prof. Vinoj Abraham & Dr. Dipa Sinha

Rhythm Sparsh Narayan
Email: rhythm20phd@cds.ac.in
Webpage:
Date of Joining: 4 January 2021
Research Interest:
Supervisor(s): Dr. Gogol Mitra Thakur and Dr. Srikanta Kundu
Committee Members: Dr. M. Parameswaran and Dr. Chandril Bhattacharyya

Shonima Nelliat
Email: shonima20phd@cds.ac.in
Date of Joining: 4 January 2021
Research Interest:
Supervisor(s): Prof. Vinoj Abraham
Committee Members: Prof . M. Vijay Bhaskar (MIDS) and Prof. K. N. Harilal
Sita Majhi
Email: sita20phd@cds.ac.in
Webpage:
Date of Joining: 4 January 2021
Research Interest: Labour and Employment, Development Economics
Supervisor(s): Prof. Vinoj Abraham
Committee Members: Dr. Himanshu and Dr. Ritika Jain
Srimanjori Guha
Email:srimanjori20phd@cds.ac.in/srimanjori@gmail.com
Webpage:
Date of Joining: 4 January, 2021
Research Interest: Feminist Economics, Gender and Social capital, Labour Economics
Supervisor(s): Prof. Praveena Kodoth and Dr. Ritika Jain
Committee Members: Prof. Vinoj Abraham (CDS) and Prof. Shoba Arun (University of Essex)
Aishwarya Prakash
Email: aishwarya.econ@gmail.com
Webpage:
Date of Joining: 16th December 2021
Research Interest: Caste, Inequality and Institutional Economics
Supervisor(s): Prof Vinoj Abraham and Prof Thiagu Ranganathan
Committee Members: Prof Praveena Kodoth and Prof (Retd.) Satish Deshpande
Annesha Mukherjee
Email: annesha20phd@cds.ac.in
Webpage: Click here
Date of Joining: October, 2020
Research Interest: Gender, Labour and Employment, Development Economics
Supervisor(s): Prof. Praveena Kodoth and Prof. Vinoj Abraham
Committee Members: Prof. Uday S. Mishra (IIPS), Prof. Deepita Chakravarty (Dr. B.R. Ambedkar University Delhi)

Ashraful Khalq
Email: ashraful20phd@cds.ac.in
Webpage:
Date of Joining: October 11, 2021
Research Interest:
Supervisor(s): Prof. Hrushikesh Mallick
Committee Members: Prof. Prasant Kumar Panda, Dr. Chandril Bhattacharyya

Basit Abdullah
Email: basit20phd@cds.ac.in
Webpage:https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=yPmqGo4AAAAJ&hl=en&authuser=1&oi=ao
Date of Joining: July, 2020
Research Interest: Development Economics, Labour and Employment
Supervisor(s): Prof Vinoj Abraham, Dr Ritika Jain
Committee Members: Prof K V Ramaswamy, Prof Thiagu Ranganathan

Rahul Kamal
Email: rahulkamal.cds@gmail.com
Webpage:
Date of Joining: 21st December 2021
Research Interest: Environmental Economics, Political Economy, Policy Evaluation.
Supervisor(s): Prof. Thiagu Ranganatha, Dr. Tirtha Chatterjee
Committee Members: Dr. Abhilash T., Dr. S. Kriti.
Rajalaxmi Singh
Email:rajalaxmisingh21@gmail.com
Webpage:https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=-4m9ITcAAAAJ&hl=en
Date of Joining: March 2021
Research Interest: Development Economics, Economics of Education, Rural Development
Supervisor(s): Prof. Thiagu Ranganathan
Committee Members: Prof. Vinoj Abraham & Prof. U.S. Mishra
Sabeer V C
Email:sabeer20phd@cds.ac.in
Webpage:https://sites.google.com/view/sabeervadakkecholakkakath/home https://sites.google.com/view/sabeervadakkecholakkakath/
Date of Joining:January 2021
Research Interest:International Migration, International Trade, Development Economics
Supervisor(s):Prof. Parameswaran M
Committee Members:Dr.Rajit Biswas and Dr.Ritika Jain

Suaid Ahmad Rather
Email: suaid20phd@cds.ac.in
Webpage:
Date of Joining: December 2022
Research Interest: Political economy, Development economics, Causal inference, Quantitative economics
Supervisor(s): Prof. Thiagu Ranganathan (CDS), Dr. Srikanta Kundu(IIM-Sirmaur)
Committee Members: Prof. Vinoj Abraham (CDS), Dr Tamoghna Halder (APU)

Swathi Krishna K U
Email: swathi20phd@cds.ac.in
Webpage:
Date of Joining: 29 June 2021
Research Interest:
Supervisor(s): Prof. P. L. Beena
Committee Members: Dr. Thiagu Ranganathan, Dr. Md Zakaria Siddiqui
Vishnu Ravi
Email: vishnuravi20phd@cds.ac.in / vishnuravi117@gmail.com
Webpage:
Date of Joining: February 2023
Research Interest: Village studies, Political economy, Fisheries
Supervisor(s): Prof. Vinoj Abraham & Dr. Abhilash T
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