Ruth Kattumuri is a British Indian involved in strategy,inter-government public policy,sustainable development and academia. She is Senior Director Economic,Youth and Sustainable Development at the Commonwealth of Nations.[1] She has been co-director of the India Observatory (IO),[2][3] a Distinguished Policy Fellow and Founder of the IG Patel Chair and IO at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).
She is engaged in multi-disciplinary evidence-based research and analyses for international development,and impacting inter-governmental policy pertaining to sustainable growth,transparent governance,justice and equality.[4][5][6][7] She is actively involved in influencing sustainable business practices and has developed innovative international leadership and knowledge exchange programmes and collaborations.[8]
At Madras Christian College,Kattumuri's professor and mentor was Gift Siromoney,an internationally renowned computer scientist,and founder and chairman of the college's Department of Statistics.[10]
Career
She served as professor of computer science and statistics at Madras Christian College,University of Madras.
Kattumuri became a Cambridge Commonwealth Fellow[11] in 1999. Between 2004 and 2006,she served as LSE's India Head. Kattumuri then founded the IG Patel Chair and the LSE India Observatory in 2007 and became Co-Director of the LSE India Observatory. Between 2006 and 2016,she was also Co-Director of the LSE Asia Research Centre. In 2016,she was elected as Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.[12]
From 1997 to 2004,she lectured in advanced research methods for Masters and PhD students across various departments of LSE including the Methodology Institute and Departments of Statistics,Economics,Social Policy and Public Administration.
Overseas Research Fellowship for her PhD research at LSE (selected by Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals of UK Universities).[citation needed]
↑Siromoney, Rani (September 1991). "Contributions of Professor Gift Siromoney in the Area of Pattern Recognition". IETE Journal of Research. 37 (5–6): 409–418. doi:10.1080/03772063.1991.11436996. ISSN0377-2063.
↑Kattumuri, Ruth; Ravindranath, Darshini (2014). The Global Development of Policy Regimes to Combat Climate Change. The Tricontinental Series on Global Economic Issues. Vol.4. pp.75–106. doi:10.1142/9789814551854_0004. ISBN978-981-4551-84-7.
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