R B Bhagat Professor and Head Department of Migration and Urban Studies, International Institute for Population Sciences, Mumbai, India

Dr. R. B. Bhagat is currently working as Professor and Head, Department of Migration and Urban Studies, International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), Mumbai. He holds Master Degree in Geography from the Centre for the Study of Regional Development, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and PhD in Demography from University of Bombay. He was a recipient of UGC Research Award during 2002-03.

Prof Bhagat was actively associated with Working Group on Urbanisation set up by International Union for the Scientific Study of Population, Paris, (IUSSP).

He was Co-coordinator of the Environmental Information System (ENVIS) on population, settlement and environment at IIPS funded by Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India (GoI), and a Co-ordinator of Concurrent Evaluation of National Rural Health Mission, funded by Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, GoI. He has worked as an expert in various projects related to the Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs and Ministry of Human Resources, GoI. He also worked as a consultant to UNESCO-UNICEF India Initiative on Migration; International Organisation of Migration (IOM), UN Population Division; ICIMOD, Kathmandu. He has been teaching Post Graduate students and guiding M.Phil and PhD scholars. His areas of interest include issues related to population, urbanization, migration and environment. He has also worked in the areas of evolution of demographic data and construction of social identities.