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
Bikramaditya Datta, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
Farzana Afridi, Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi
Kanika Mahajan, Ashoka University
Kunal Dasgupta, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore
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
Shekhar Tomar, ISB Hyderabad
Sisir Debnath, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
Soumendu Sarkar, Delhi School of Economics
Sourabh Bikas Paul, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
Sourav Bhattacharya, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta
Souvik Banerjee, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
Souvik Dutta, Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi
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, CAFRAL
Additionally, the following scholars are advisors to SERI:
Bharat Ramaswami, Ashoka University
Debraj Ray, New York University
Dilip Mookherjee, Boston University
Jyotsna Jalan, Centre for Studies in the Social Sciences, Kolkata
Maitreesh Ghatak, London School of Economics
Rajiv Sethi, Columbia University
Rohini Somanathan, Delhi School of Economics
For questions or clarifications, please contact us at contact@seri.network