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Dr. Neeti Shikha
Dr. Neeti Shikha
Associate Dean, ISPP
Dr. Neeti Shikha is Associate Dean, Indian School of Public Policy, New Delhi. Before joining ISPP, she worked as Head, Centre for Insolvency and Bankruptcy, Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs, a think tank under the Ministry of Corporate Affairs.
She holds PhD from National Law University Jodhpur and LLM from University College London, UK. She is recipient of prestigious Hague Scholarship and has pursued course in private international law at the Hague Academy, Netherlands.
She has held academic positions at various law and business schools in India and Singapore including Stansfield College Singapore, National law University, Jodhpur and FORE School of Management, and IMT Ghaziabad. She serves on the Academic Advisory Board of India School of Public policy and on the board of advisors of India’s leading think tank, Centre for Civil Society, New Delhi. She is also a life member, FORE Society, parent body governing FORE School of Management, New Delhi. She is also board member of Insolvency Research Foundation.
Dr. Shikha has published widely in leading journals and newspapers, and has authored two leading books Changing Paradigm of Corporate Governance in India and Corporate Governance: Principles and Policies. She has done funded research for Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India and Ministry of Corporate Affairs and has submitted policy inputs to the government on insolvency and bankruptcy laws. Her main area of interest are company laws, insolvency laws, corporate governance and law and policy.
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Jyotsna Puri
Jyotsna Puri
Head, Independent Evaluation Unit, Green Climate Fund
Jyotsna Puri (or Jo) is the Director of the Environment, Climate Gender, Youth, Nutrition and Social Inclusion Division (ECG) at IFAD. She leads the team that is responsible for evidence-informed advice on programme designs and implementation, contributing to resource mobilization, and supporting IFAD’s global remit in providing state-of the art policy advice related to these topics. ECG is also responsible for ensuring that IFADs programmes build in social, environmental and climate safeguards while ensuring that IFAD’s investments generate benefits in these areas.
Puri has worked previously at the Green Climate Fund, 3ie, UNEP, the World Bank and UNDP. She is also adjunct associate professor at Columbia University, New York where she was also a research scientist. She has published in many academic journals and written for newspapers and provided advice as a board member to several development organizations.
She holds a PhD and MSc in Agriculture and Resource Economics and an MA in Development Economics. She is a national of India.
Maya Tudor
Maya Tudor
Associate Professor of Government and Public Policy, Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford
Dr. Maya Tudor’s research investigates the origins of stable, democratic and effective states across the developing world, with a particular emphasis upon South Asia. She was educated at Stanford University (BA in Economics) and Princeton University (MPA in Development Studies and PhD in Politics and Public Policy). She has held fellowships at Harvard University’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Oxford University’s Centre for the Study of Inequality and Democracy. During the 2018-2019 academic year, she is a fellow at Stanford University’s Center for the Advanced Study of the Behavioural Sciences.
She is currently working on two manuscripts, a comparative study of nationalisms and democracy in Asia and a critical review of nationalism research (Cambridge University Press). Her last book, ‘The Promise of Power‘ (Cambridge University Press, 2013), was based upon her 2010 dissertation, which won the American Political Science Association’s Gabriel Almond Prize for the Best Dissertation in Comparative Politics. The book investigates the origins of India and Pakistan’s puzzling regime divergence in the aftermath of colonial independence. She is also the author of articles in Comparative Politics, Indian Politics and Policy, Journal of Democracy, and Party Politics.
Before embarking on an academic career, Maya worked as a Special Assistant to Chief Economist Joseph Stiglitz at the World Bank, at UNICEF, in the United States Senate, and at the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee. A dual citizen of Germany and the United States, she has lived and worked in Bangladesh, Germany, France, India, Kenya, Pakistan, the Philippines, the United Kingdom and the United States.
Neeti Shikha
Neeti Shikha
Associate Dean, ISPP
Dr. Neeti Shikha is serving as an Associate Dean at the Indian School of Public Policy, New Delhi. Before joining ISPP, she worked as Head, Centre for Insolvency and Bankruptcy, Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs, a think tank under the Ministry of Corporate Affairs.
She is a Life Member of FORE Society, Parent Body of Fore School of Management. She is also on Academic Advisory Council of ISPP. She serves on the board of Goeman Bindt HTO, a private non-profit international legal and policy advisory and research think-tank, as an Expert and a Leader. Neeti is also the founding board member of Insolvency Research Foundation, an joint initiative of industry and government.
She has held academic positions at various law and business schools in India and Singapore. Previously, she was an associate professor and Head International cell at Symbiosis Law School Noida. She has been an Assistant Professor & Director, Centre for Corporate and Commercial Laws at National Law University Jodhpur, followed by her stint at Fore School of Management and IMT Ghaziabad. She has held visiting positions at IIM Rohtak and IIFT, New Delhi. She is a trainer and coach for various management development professional programs.
Dr. Shikha has completed her doctorate in corporate governance from National Law University Jodhpur, India. She holds LLM in International Business Laws from the University College London, UK. She is the recipient of prestigious Hague Scholarship where she attended Private International Law Course at the Hague Academy. She has given talks at National University Singapore, University of Indonesia and has many publications and 2 books to her credit. She is member of the prestigious European Corporate Governance Institute.
