Nirupam Bajpai | |
|---|---|
| Born | Uttar Pradesh, India |
| Occupation | Educationist<be>Economist |
| Awards | Padma Shri |
Nirupam Bajpai, a US-based Indian educationist and economist, is the Senior Research Scholar at the Earth Institute of the Columbia University and the Senior Development Advisor and Director of its South Asia Program. [1] [2] He is the founding director of the Columbia Global Centers South Asia, an office he held between July 2010 and August 2014, [3] and is the author of a number of publications, [4] [5] [6] including India in the Era of Economic Reforms. [7]
Bajpai, after graduating from Lucknow and securing a PhD in economics in 1988, moved to US in 1992 where he worked at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology before joining Harvard Institute for International Development of Harvard University in 1995. [8] He worked at Harvard University till 2002 during which time he also worked at the Kennedy School of Government of the University and led the Harvard India Program. [3] In 2002, he joined Columbia University and is associated with the institution since then, working in various capacities.
He has been a part of the team under Jeffrey Sachs who served three successive Indian governments from 2002, two of them led by Manmohan Singh and one by Atal Bihari Vajpayee, as advisors on rural health and education services. [9] The Government of India awarded him the fourth highest civilian honour of the Padma Shri, in 2008, for his contributions to society. [10]
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