Faculty and Staff
Director
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Professor Michelguglielmo Torri, Faculty of Political Sciences, Department of Political Studies, University of Turin. Professor Torri (diocles@quipo.it) is Scientific Director of “Asia Maior”, an Italian Think-Tank on Asia and President of Italindia, the Italian Association for South Asian Studies. |
Instructors
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Professor Elisabetta Basile, (DPhil in Development Studies, Oxford University) is Professor of Applied Economics at the Faculty of Economics – Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. She is convener of the Europe-Asia Working Group of the European Association of Development Research and Training Institutions. |
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Professor C. P. Chandrasekhar, Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. |
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Dr Ritu Dewan, Professor and Head, Centre for Women’s Studies/Gender Economics, Department of Economics, University of Mumbai, India |
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Professor Jayati Ghosh, Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. |
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Professor James Manor, Emeka Anyoku Professor of Commonwealth Studies, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London, UK. |







