• Ph.D in Economics, Jawaharlal Nehru University

Ishwar Awasthi, a Ph.D. from the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi is Professor at the Institute for Human Development, Delhi. Previously, he was Professor at the Giri Institute of Development Studies, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. He works in the areas of labour, employment and livelihood issues and on development evaluation. He has contributed over 3 dozen papers in the professional journals and published two co-authored and three edited books. He has published a book on Livelihood Diversities in Mountain Economy, Constraints and Opportunities, Concept Publishing Company, 2012. He is a managing editor of IASSI Quarterly, a journal of the Indian Association of Social Science Institutions.