Devaki Jain, Author & Economist

Devaki Jain earned his PhD in Economics from the University of Virginia, and his BA from Franklin and Marshall College. Before his PhD, he was a management consultant with Charles River Associates in Washington DC and Oliver Wyman in Boston. Professor Jain teaches the core course on Microeconomics and an elective in Health Economics in the MBA program at IIM Ahmedabad, as well as a PhD elective on Organizational Economics. At the ISB, he taught courses in Managerial Economics and Information Economics. He has written several Harvard Business case studies that are used by universities around the world. Devaki Jain, Honorary Fellow St. Anne’s College, Oxford University, is the founder and former Director of the Institute of Social Studies Trust New Delhi, India. She was previously a lecturer at the University of Delhi, a founding member of Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN), member of the South Commission (chaired by Julius Nyerere), and of the U.N. Eminent Persons Group concerned with child soldiers. She has an honorary doctorate from the University of Westville in Durban, Republic of South Africa and has held fellowships at Harvard and Sussex Universities. She has also been a member of State Planning boards and many of Government of India’s special committee related to gender and its inclusion. She has written several books related to women’s role in national and international progress. Her most recent works are the two volumes of her Selected Works called Journey of a Southern Feminist and Close Encounters of Another Kind: Women and Development Economics. She had been awarded Padma Bhushan by the Government of India in 2006 for her contribution to social justice and the empowerment of women. She has also published her Memoirs, The Brass Notebook in 2020. She is the recipient of the Bradford Morse Memorial Award (1995) from the UNDP at the Beijing World Conference.