About

SERI was set up in 2015 to create a community of scholars in India to promote research collaboration, information sharing and peer critique. The main platform for pursuing this goal is an annual workshop where members and other invited speakers can present their ongoing research to each other and receive feedback. The workshop is conceived to allow greater engagement than is possible under the usual conference format. A small number of papers are discussed and longer time slots allow detailed exposition and discussion. SERI also organizes a workshop for Ph.D. students and future plans include more specialized workshops and collaboration with funders interested in disseminating research results in narrower fields. Starting 2022, SERI will also be organzing an Indian Job Market in collaboration with the Econometric Society (ES), EconJobMarket.org (EJM), National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER) to facilitate matching of PhD economists and prospective employers.

A group of about a dozen faculty drawn from different specializations and departments across the country volunteers to organize SERI’s activities. The core group collectively makes decisions, formulates policy and plans new initiatives. The current members of this group are:

• Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay, Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi
• Anirban Kar, Delhi School of Economics
• Farzana Afridi, Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi
• Manaswini Bhalla, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore
• Mausumi Das, Delhi School of Economics
• Parikshit Ghosh, Delhi School of Economics
• Rajeswari Sengupta, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research
• Rashmi Barua, Jawaharlal Nehru University
• Ritwik Banerjee, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore
• Sabyasachi Das, Ashoka University
• Shabana Mitra, Shiv Nadar University
• Sourav Bhattacharya, Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta
• Sudha Narayanan, International Food Policy Research Institute
• Sujoy Chakravarty, Jawaharlal Nehru University
• Tanika Chakraborty, Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta
• Tarun Jain, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad
• Tridip Ray, Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi
• Vidhya Soundararajan, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

Additionally, the following scholars are advisors to SERI:

• Bharat Ramaswami, Ashoka University
• Dilip Mookherjee, Boston University
• Jyotsna Jalan, Centre for Studies in the Social Sciences, Kolkata
• Rohini Somanathan, Delhi School of Economics

For questions or clarifications, please contact us at contact@seri.network