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eight Indian Americans among

100 Most Influential Academics in Government

OUR BUREAU

New York, NY
A s many as eight Indian Amer-
academics,
ican
including
IMF’s Gita Gopinath figure in
London based Apolitical’s latest list
of 100 Most Influential Academics in
Government whose work influenced
policymaking in five key areas. This
year’s list recognizes academics work-
ing in five timely policy areas that
represent problems being faced by
government everywhere, and present
an opportunity for intergovernmental
collaboration, it said.
Gopinath, the First Deputy Man-
aging Director of the International
Monetary Fund, its number-two lead-
ership position, since Jan 21, has been
recognized in the area of Economics,
employment & skills. Karthik Mu-
ralidharan, Tata Chancellor’s Profes-
sor of Economics at the University of nomic and human performance. He is His research also contributed to in July 2018 from the University of
California, San Diego (UCSD) and co-author or co-editor of 16 books as early evidence on Covid from sero- Pennsylvania. There, he was a profes-
Rohini Pande, the Henry J. Heinz II also author of over 50 journal articles, prevalence studies in India. His ongo- sor of Political Science and Director
Professor of Economics and Director book chapters, cases, working papers, ing research aims to understand long of the Center for the Advanced Study
of the Economic Growth Center, Yale and notes. term consequences of large-scale dis- of India, holding the Madan Lal Sobti
University too have been selected in Prior to joining the Harvard ruptions caused by the pandemic and Chair for the Study of Contemporary
the same category. Business School faculty in July 1988, its effect on vulnerability of house- India.
Nitin Nohria, Dean of Harvard Nohria received his PhD in Manage- holds. Prior to his tenure at Penn, he was
Business School, has been recog- ment from the Sloan School of Man- Born and raised in India, Prof. Associate Professor of Government
nized for his work in other policy ar- agement, Massachusetts Institute of Muralidharan earned a bachelor’s at the University of Texas at Austin,
eas along with Devesh Kapur, Starr Technology. He is a BTech in Chem- degree in economics from Harvard and the Frederick Danziger Associate
Foundation Professor of South Asian ical Engineering from the Indian In- University (summa cum laude), an Professor of Government at Harvard.
Studies and Pradeep Khosla, Eighth stitute of Technology, Bombay (which MPhil in economics from Cambridge Kapur has a BTech in Chemical
Chancellor, University of California honored him as a Distinguished University (ranked first), and a PhD Engineering from IIT (BHU) Varana-
San Diego. Anup Malani, Lee and Alumnus in 2007). He was a visiting in economics from Harvard Univer- si; MS in Chemical Engineering from
Brena Freeman Professor at the Uni- faculty member at the London Busi- sity. His research spans development, the University of Minnesota; PhD
versity of Chicago Law School, and ness School in 1996. public, and labor economics with a from the Woodrow Wilson School at
Manoj Mohanan, Associate Professor Anup Malani is an elected mem- focus on improving the effectiveness Princeton.
at Duke University’s Sanford School ber of the American Academy of Arts of public spending in the social sector Pradeep Khosla’s research in-
of Public Policy, have been chosen in & Sciences. He conducts research in (education, health, and social protec- terests encompass the areas of in-
Recovery from Covid-19 category. development economics, health eco- tion programs). ternet-enabled collaborative design,
The John Zwaanstra Professor of nomics and law and economics. A co-editor of American Eco- collaborating autonomous systems,
International Studies and of Econom- During the Covid pandemic, nomic Review: Insights, Rohini Pan- agent-based architectures for distrib-
ics at Harvard University, Gopinath Malani led a modeling team that de’s research is largely focused on uted design and embedded control,
is currently on leave of public service developed a forecasting model and how formal and informal institutions software composition and reconfigu-
from the economics department. She method of adaptive control for Covid shape power relationships and pat- rable software for real-time embed-
served as the IMF Chief Economist in India; that model was used to in- terns of economic and political ad- ded systems, reconfigurable and dis-
of the International Monetary Fund form policy in Bihar and in Indonesia. vantage in society, particularly in de- tributed robotic systems, integrated
(IMF) from 1919 to 2022. Manoj Mohanan’s research fo- veloping countries. She is interested design-assembly planning systems
Gopinath’s research focuses on cuses primarily on the economics of the role of public policy in providing and distributed information systems.
International Finance and Macroeco- health and development, and health the poor and disadvantaged political His research has resulted in three
nomics. She is currently a member of policy. His past research has exam- and economic power, and how no- books and more than 350 journal ar-
the Group of Thirty and the Council ined topics including performance tions of economic justice and human ticles and conference and book con-
on Foreign Relations. incentive contracts, public private rights can help justify and enable such tributions. He is also the founding
Nohria’s intellectual interests partnerships, quality of care, social change. director of the Carnegie Mellon Cy-
center on human motivation, leader- franchising, accountability interven- Devesh Kapur joined the Johns Lab and the Institute for Complex
ship, corporate transformation and tions, and household health behavior Hopkins University School of Ad- Engineered Systems, which pursues
accountability, and sustainable eco- across multiple countries. vanced International Studies (SAIS) interdisciplinary projects.

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