Name: Dr. Saswata Ghosh
Dr. Saswata Ghosh is associated with the Institute of Development Studies Kolkata (IDSK) as Assistant Professor since 2007. He has completed his PhD and MPhil from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in Population Studies in 2006. Prior to that, he completed the Master of Population Studies (MPS) from International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), Mumbai and Master in Mathematics (M.Sc.) from Jadavpur University, Kolkata. While pursuing Ph.D., he started his professional research carrier as Associate Fellow in Council of Social Development (CSD), New Delhi. He has also worked with the Population Council, New Delhi as Assistant Programme Officer. His areas of interest include maternal and child health, mortality, morbidity, nutrition, women’s reproductive health, family planning, field survey methods, demographic estimations and econometric methods. He teaches demographic estimation, survey methods, and advanced econometric tools at the M.Phil. level. Three students have already obtained M.Phil. degree under his supervision. He has worked as the Principal Investigator in the project titled “Improving women’s health and institutional delivery of public reproductive health services (Phase-1 & 2)” funded by Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung (RLS), Germany. Prior to that he had contributed to other national level projects such as “Towards message that matter: Understanding and addressing HIV and SRH risks among married young people in India” and “Empowering Young Mothers in India: First Time Parent Project” funded by DFID, and also to prepare “Birbhum District Human Development Report” funded by UNDP and Planning Commission. He has published a number of research articles in various journals of international repute, which include Journal of Biosocial Science, Asian Population Studies, Asia-Pacific Population Journal, Genus and Economic and Political Weekly.




Name: Professor Yasuyuki Sawada
Professor Yasuyuki Sawada is visiting BIDS from September 10, 2012 to March 31, 2013. He is a Professor in Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo. He is also a Visiting Researcher of the JICA Research Institute of Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA); Faculty of Fellow of Research Institute of Economy, Trade, and Industry (RIETI), and member of inter-governmental Joint Research Project on a New Era of Japan-Korea Relations.  He held visiting professorships of Stanford University and Korea University. His research interests include econometric investigations of individual, household and firm behaviors under risks using micro-data from developing and developed countries such as China, India, Pakistan, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, and Japan. 
Link: http://www.e.u-tokyo.ac.jp/fservice/faculty/sawada/sawada.e/sawada01.e.html



Name: Dr. M.G. Quibria




Name: Prof. Fahad Khalil
Prof. Fahad Khalil is in BIDS from 2nd Aug, 2010 to 18th Sept, 2010 as a Visiting Research Scholar.He is a Professor of Economics at University of Washington, Seattle. His areas of interest are in the theory of incentives, industrial organization, and the economics of information. His recent work includes analyses on corruption, bureaucracies, microfinance and rural household behavior, and tea auctions in Bangladesh.
Link: http://www.econ.washington.edu/people/detail.asp?uid=khalil

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Name: Dr. Niaz Asadullah
Dr. Niaz Asadullah is in BIDS from 1st Aug, 2010 to 15th Sept, 2010 as a Visiting Research Fellow. He teaches Economics at the University of Reading, UK and is a research fellow at IZA, Bonn. He specializes in the economics of education, skills, and development. His recent published work includes analyses on economic returns to education in the labour market and agricultural production, intergenerational economic and schooling mobility, inequality of educational opportunity, the rise of religious schools and the quality of secondary schools and madrasas in Bangladesh.

Link: http://users.ox.ac.uk/~sant0883/

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