Dr.
Amitabh Kundu, Professor of Economics at the Centre for the Study of
Regional Development and Dean of the School of Social Sciences at Jawaharlal
Nehru University, New Delhi. He has been nominated as a member of National
Statistical Commission in 2006. He has done Post Doctoral work as a Senior
Fulbright Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania and has been a Visiting
Professor at University of Amsterdam, Maison des Sciences de L’homme, Paris,
University of Kaiserslautern and South Asian Institute Heidelberg, Germany.
He has undertaken International Consultancies for UNDP, UNESCO, UNCHS, ILO,
Government of Netherlands, University of Toronto, Sasakawa Foundation etc.
He has worked as Director at various institutes such as National Institute
of Urban Affairs, Indian Council of Social Science research and Gujarat
Institute of Development Research. Currently he is in the Editorial Board of
Manpower Journal, Urban India, Journal of Educational Planning and
Administration, Indian Journal of Labour Economics. He has about twenty five
books and two hundred research articles, published in India and abroad, to
his credit. His recent books are Science, Religion and Development:
Advancing the Discourse (Ed. with Mariam Tai), India: Social
Development Report (Chief Editor), Oxford University Press, Handbook
of Urbanisation, (with Sivaramakrishnan and Singh) OUP, ICT for Human
Development: Towards Building a Composite Index for Achieving the Millennium
Development Goals, UNDP, Inequality, Mobility and Urbanisation: China
and India (Ed.), Manak Publications, Informal Sector in India,
(Ed. with Sharma), Institute for Human Development, Poverty and
Vulnerability in a Globalising Metropolis: Ahmedabad, (Ed. with
Mahadevia), Manak.
