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Professor (Dr.) Amita Batra is an Adjunct Fellow at Institute of Chinese Studies, Delhi. She is Professor of Economics and currently the Chairperson of the Centre for South Asian Studies, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU). Prior to this Prof. Batra was Senior Fellow in ICRIER for five years from 2002-2007 and before that Reader, Hindu College, Delhi University. Prof. Batra has also been Senior Visiting Fellow at the Department of Political Economy, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Sydney in October 2018 and the first holder, in January-May, 2013, of the ICCR Professorial Chair in Contemporary Indian Studies at the Centre for South Asian Studies & Edinburgh-India Institute, University of Edinburgh. She has also been visiting professor at the Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad.
Professor (Dr.) Amita Batra is Professor of Economics and currently the Chairperson of the Centre for South Asian Studies, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU). Prof. Batra was Senior Visiting Fellow at the Department of Political Economy, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Sydney in October 2018 and the first holder, in January-May, 2013, of the ICCR Professorial Chair in Contemporary Indian Studies at the Centre for South Asian Studies & Edinburgh-India Institute, University of Edinburgh. She has also been visiting professor at the Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad.
Prof. Batra is a member, of the Economic Affairs Council (2020-2021) of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII). She is on the editorial committee/ board of international journals: Asian Perspective (John Hopkins University, USA) and Journal of Asian Economic Integration (Sage). She is an honorary member of the Advisory Board of Centre for Advanced Trade Research of the Trade Promotion Council of India. Prof. Batra is also an occasional columnist for Business Standard, a leading financial daily in India.
Prof. Batra has published extensively on India’s Trade policy and related issues. Her recent book is titled “Regional Economic Integration in South Asia: trapped in conflict?2013, Routledge: London and most recent monograph is Revealed Comparative Advantage and Gravity Model Analysis of Trade Patterns and Regional Economic Integration: Empirical Evidence in the Indian Context, 2016, Academic Foundation, New Delhi and The Indian Econometric Society.
Prof. Batra holds an M.A., M.Phil., and PhD in Economics from the Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, India.
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