Ravi S. Srivastava Chairperson, IDS, Jaipur, Director, Centre for Employment Studies, IIHD, Former Professor, Centre for the Study of Regional Development, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India

Dr. Ravi Srivastava is currently Director, Centre for Employment Studies, Institute for Human Development, Delhi. He is also the Chairman, Board of Governors of Institute of Development Studies, Jaipur. He is a former Professor of Economics and Chairperson, Centre for the Study of Regional Development, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and former full-time Member of the National Commission for Enterprises in the Unorganised Sector (NCEUS).

He has published several books and more than one hundred papers in national and international journals in the areas of labour and employment, migration, social protection, the informal sector, regional development, decentralization, human development, poverty, agriculture and rural development. He has also carried out more than twenty-five major research projects sponsored by agencies such as UNICEF, ILO, UNESCO, UNFPA, The World Bank, ESRC (UK), University Grants Commission, Indian Council for Social Science Research, Shastri Indo-Canadian Foundation and others.

He is a recipient of numerous awards and scholarships including the Commonwealth and the Fulbright Fellowship; the University Grant Commission’s award in economics (2001) for innovative research on poverty, combining qualitative and quantitative methodologies; and more recently, the V. V. Giri Memorial Award (2009) for contribution to research on labour migration. He has performed consultancy and advisory roles for the Planning Commission, Indian Ministries, State governments; International Agencies such as the World Bank, ILO, ADB, UNDP, UNICEF, UNESCO, UNFPA, IFAD, FAO, JBIC, DFID and SIDA; and numerous other governmental and non-governmental agencies.