Co-Director of Asian hub for the Princeton University project on State-Building in the Developing World. (2009-12)

Project Director of the Nationwide Survey of Women’s Participation in Panchayati Raj Institutions, sponsored by the Ministry of Panchayati Raj, Government of India. (2007-08)

Director, Dialogue on Pluralism and Democracy in South Asia, funded by the Ford Foundation, and located at the Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. (January 2003-May 2007)

Country Co-ordinator (India) for the World Governance Survey of the United Nations University, Tokyo. (2001)

Democracy and Social Capital in the Garhwal Himalaya: member of research project on Democracy and Social Capital in Segmented Societies, in collaboration with the Department of Government, Uppsala University, Sweden.

(Co-researcher) The Influence of Parliament on Policy-making: A Study of Public Policy on Drought, part of a project on Sustainable Development for High-Risk Regions, located at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 1989-90.