2024 + Board Member, Observatory of Rural Dynamics and Social Dynamics in South India (https://odriis.hypotheses.org/) Institute Francais de Pondicherry / IRD, France.
2023+ Member Advisory Board, Global Landfill /Waste Dump methane monitoring project Stanford University (Dr Paul Tulloch) (non-stipendiary)
2022 + Member, International Association for Work in Agriculture (France)
2022-23 Member, Scientific Committee, Association Française d'Economie du Développement (France)
2022-24 Chair, Young Scholars’ Seminar in Agrarian Studies in India, Foundation for Agrarian Studies, Bangalore; (non-stipendiary – expanded to South Asia for 2023-24)
2021-24 Resource Person and lecturer, Network IDEAS (International Development Economics Associates) Advanced Certificate Programme on Research in Political Economy
(non stipendiary) https://www.networkideas.org/certificate-programme/
2020-2023 Commissioner, Food Systems Economics Commission (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research/ Lancet/EAT/ Food and Land Use Coalition) (non-stipendiary)
https://www.foodsystemeconomics.org/ (see 1.d.15)
2019 – Member, Teachers against Climate Crisis, Delhi https://teachersagainstclimatecrisis.wordpress.com/
2019 - Adviser, People, Animals and Waste Systems in South Asia www.paws-web.site UK-India research on socio-economic aspects of antimicrobial resistance from human-animal relationships mediated by waste in Indian urban environments. (non-stipendiary)
2017-19 Senior Consultant, DFID funded research programme ‘Mapping Pathways Into and Out of Poverty in S Indian Villages’, Science-Policy Research Unit, Sussex University. http://www.sussex.ac.uk/spru/research/projects/mapping-pathways DFID-ESRC Joint Fund for Poverty Alleviation Research [ES/N014456/1 https://steps-centre.org/project/relational-pathways/
2014-17: Co-Investigator, EU ESRC funded research programme ‘Inequality and Poverty’ http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/inequalityandpoverty/ researching the economy as a waste-producing system
2013-17, Senior anchor: Oxford’s ‘Juxtapose’ project (on the problems of comparing China and India) http://www.juxtaposeproject.org (non-stipendiary)
2012-16: Co-Investigator, EU-ESRC funded research programme ‘Democratic Cultures’ www.ucl.ac.uk/democratic-cultures researching the criminal economy
2011 - 14: Director, ESRC-DFID research project: Resources, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Technology and Work in Production and Distribution Systems: Rice in India (CSASP, SIAS) researching gaseous waste in agriculture, https://www.southasia.ox.ac.uk/research-projects/resources-greenhouse-gases-technology-and-jobs-in-indias-informal-economy-the-case-of-rice
http://reshare.ukdataservice.ac.uk/851542/
2011-22: Director and Co-ordinator, South Asian Research Cluster, Wolfson College, Oxford.
2007 - 11: Founder-Director, Contemporary South Asian Studies Programme (School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies), Oxford University (Director, MSc in Contemporary India (the world’s first); post-doc programme; visiting research fellows programme; platform for extraordinary lectures, seminars, workshops and conferences, outside funded research projects. Six scholarships raised. Helped in raising £8m from EU/ESRC for research programmes)
2004 – 07: Director, Queen Elizabeth House (Dept of International Development), Oxford University
(2006 –11 founder, MSc in Contemporary India (School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies), Oxford University; 2005 founder, Health and Development course : MSc in Global Health Science (and teaching link with Department of Public Health and Primary Care), Oxford University; 2005 – 9, project sponsor of £4m extension to dept building, Dept of International Development, Mansfield Road-Jowett Walk site – architects Hawkins Brown - commended, 2010, by the Oxford Preservation Trust; 2005 celebration of 50thanniversary of QEH – major international conference; 2004-7 outside funding increases fourfold – highest in Social Sciences Division, Oxford University)
2003 - 04 Deputy Director/Director-Elect, Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford university
1998 - 2011 Professor of Development Studies, Oxford University
1996 – 8 Reader in Development Studies, Oxford University
1995 - 8 Director of Graduate Studies in Development, Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford University and Founding Course Director, M. Phil. in Development Studies
1987 to 1996 University Lecturer in Agricultural Economics, International Development Centre (Queen Elizabeth House), Oxford University and 1987-88 Research Fellow, Wolfson College; then 1988 to 2011, Governing Body Fellow of Wolfson College
1981-7 Research Fellow (and Honorary Lecturer in Food Policy: M.Sc. in Human Nutrition) , Nutrition Policy Unit, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London University
1977-81 Research Associate, Overseas Development Institute, London
1972-7 Research Officer, Centre of South Asian Studies, Cambridge University
1969-72 Lecturer, (London University External and CNAA degrees (Historical Geography/ South Asian Geography)) Cambridgeshire College of Arts and Technology (now Anglia Ruskin University)
2014, 2015: Distinguished Fellow (Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Advanced Studies) & Visiting Professor, Centre for the Informal Sector and Labour Studies, JNU, India
2013 Visiting Professorship: China Agricultural University, Beijing, PRC
2013 Professeur Invitee /Visiting Professorship, Université Montesquieu - Bordeaux IV, France
2011 Visiting Professorship / Professeure Invitee, IEDES , Paris-1 (Sorbonne), France
2010-11 Visiting Professorship Rome-1 La Sapienza, Italy
2010 Visiting Professorship, IEDES, Paris-1 (Sorbonne), France ;
2009 Visiting Professorship, IEDES, Paris-1 (Sorbonne), France;
2009 + Professorial Research Associate, Department of Development Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
2004 Elected : Visiting Fellow, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France
1979-80 , 1993-5, Visiting Research Fellow, Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai, India
1977-79, 1981-87 School of Development Studies, University of East Anglia (VRF)
1973-4 Dept of Economics, University of Madras (VRF)
2021 + International Advisory Council member, Norwich Institute for Sustainable Development
2018—2022 Member, International Advisory Board, Cambridge University TIGR2ESS research programme. (2021: Deputy Chair)
2018-20 India-Oxford Strategic Advisory Board
2013-2020 Advisory Committee: Oxford-India Centre for Sustainable Development, Oxford University
2013-14 Member of the Advisory Board: Oxford University Society, India, 2013-14 Member of the Advisory Group, Peoples’ Political Economy project, QEH, Oxford
2013 + Member of the Advisory Council RRA Network (Revitalising Rainfed Agriculture) National Institute of Science, Technology and Development Studies (NISTADS - CSIR), New Delhi (Prof Rajeswari Raina). 2013 + Member of the Advisory Board of the S.R. Sankaran Unit for Hunger and Social Exclusion in the Centre for Equity Studies, New Delhi (Harsh Mander)
2012-17 Member, Advisory Committee DFID Research Programme Consortium – LANSA Leveraging Agriculture for Health and Nutrition; MSSRF-IFPRI-IDS (MS Swaminathan Research Foundation) Chennai
2011+ (renewed 2020) Adviser, School of Government and Public Policy, Jindal University, India
(Inaugural Lecture: School of Government and Public Policy)
2011-13 Member, Advisory Committee, International Labour Organisation’s Research Network on Informal Economies, Vulnerability and Employment
2011-19: Member, Advisory Committee, DFID-Research Programme Consortium –Manchester University : ‘Effective States and Inclusive Development’
2010 Member Advisory Board Institute of Human Development, New Delhi, Bihar Agriculture project
2009-11 Member of the UK Unions’ Climate Commission (a Trades Union / Campaign against Climate Change initiative on planning a million new jobs which reduce CO2
2008 Co-opted member of the organising committee, Indian Society of Labour Economics Golden Jubilee conference.
Policy and Consultancy
2024+ Editorial Board Member : MWF - Cambridge University Press Monograph Series: Markets in Society – Transdisciplinary Approaches from Southern Perspectives
2010 -16 Member: DFID’s Informal Research Advisory Group for Chief Scientific Adviser Prof Chris Whitty
2010 Adviser: British Academy response to the Science and Engineering Assurance Review of DFID
2007-10 Consultant Adviser to ESRC Project ‘Ageing, Poverty and Neoliberalism in Urban South India’ (Dir: Dr P Vera Sanso, Birkbeck College, London University)
http://www.esrc.ac.uk/my-esrc/grants/RES-352-25-0027/read
2007 Adviser and participant: First Expert Group Meeting: Strengthening International Cooperation for Development to Address the Climate Change Challenge,19-20 November, United Nations Headquarters, New York
2007 Adviser to WIEGO/Ford Foundation collaborative Indo-Chinese project on the informal sector: Harvard University-Delhi-Beijing-Shanghai
2007 One of 20 ‘Key external stakeholders’ for DFID’s Research Strategy 2008-13
2006 Submission of written evidence commissioned from the UK House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee South Asia Inquiry on ‘Developments in India’s Informal Economy’.
2006 Prime Minister of India’s High Level Committee on the "Social, Economic and Educational Status of the Muslim Community of India" – Adviser to the Chair – two briefings commissioned This report was presented to the Prime Minister on 17th November, 2006 and the same report was also tabled for a discussion in the Indian Parliament on 30th November, 2006.
2005 IBRD - Washington and India: Adviser to Disability Unit
2004 Adviser to UNDP Evaluations Unit, New York on scaling up anti poverty projects. (Jan) and on the evaluation of National Human Development Reports (Dec)
2003 Consultant to the United Nations Development Programme to advise Drs Ruhi Saith and Susana Franco on their evaluation of UNDP’s Anti Poverty Programmes in South Asia.
2002 Consultant to the International Labour Office: paper giver at the Brainstorming Workshop on ‘Equality at Work’ - paper: ‘Equality at work - in the Informal Economy’
2001 Consultant to the International Labour Office: input into the 2002 Conference Report to the Council of Nations : report: ‘Decent Work and the Challenge of the Informal Economy’
2000 Consultant to the International Labour Office : adviser at the initial workshop on ‘Making Markets work for the Poor’for the 2001 Conference Report to the Council of Nations
1997 Consultant to UNRISD, Geneva to produce a phase one report for the project ‘Gender, Poverty and Wellbeing’
1995-8 Member of the Sector Review Panel on ‘New Public Sector Roles in Crop Purchasing’ of ODA's Major Research Project on the Role of Government in Adjusting Economies; Development Administration Group, Birmingham University
1994-5
UNRISD to produce two background papers as part of their documentation for the 1995 Social Summit (i) ‘Structural Adjustment and Social Security in India’ and (ii) the ‘Political Economy of Disability’
1993
Adviser to the UN's ACC/SCN (co-ordinating committee on nutrition) on the India case study for the second report on the World Nutrition Situation published by WHO in 1993
1992
ODA (with colleagues from Development Studies Institute, LSE) contributor to briefing report for British PM’s visit to India : on ‘Economic Reform in India and Its Impact of Poverty Reduction’
1992
Deutsche Stiftung fur Entwicklung, Feldafing, Germany
Briefing on ‘Agricultural Market Regulation’
1990
World Institute for Development Economics Research
Research on the ‘Marketing of Staple Food Crops in West Bengal’ (Dirs: Profs A.K. Sen and S Sengupta)
1988
ODA funded consultant to Open University and Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies on the Bangladesh Rice Markets Research Project - evaluation of field project and research on food merchants' lobbies
1988
FAO for Food Studies Group, Oxford
Training of Ethiopian Agricultural Planners in Market Evaluation
1988
ODA/ with colleagues from Relief and Development Institute
Major Briefing Document: ‘Food Strategy in India’: for ODA’s Natural Resources Review
1987
American Social Sciences Research Council, New York for BAMANEH (Health NGO), Bangladesh
Report of Conference on ‘Excess Female Mortality and Health Care in South Asia’
1986
World Institute for Development Economics Research, Helsinki
Review of research on ‘Intrahousehold Nutrients Distribution in South Asia’
1986
FAO for Bay of Bengal Fisheries Programme, Madras
Preparation and Co-Chairing of Workshop on ‘Nutritional Status of Fisherfolk’
1985-6
UNCTAD
Major Briefing Report to Intergovernmental Meeting on ‘Marketing Institutions and Technical Change’
1983
ICRISAT
Technical Editing of Conference Proceedings on ‘Agricultural Markets in the Semi Arid Tropics’ and training of managers and bankers for the simulation game: Green Revolution
1983
Open University
Consultant to Summer School: developing teaching materials on appropriate technology and technology transfer in grain processing, irrigation and transport
1982-6 (intermittently)
IFPRI, Washington
Regional Growth Linkages from Agriculture - first resurvey of the agricultural and rural non farm economy of North Arcot DIstrict
12 months' field work
1982
UNRISD and CRESSIDA, Calcutta
Food Systems and Society Project: 5 months' fieldwork on agricultural markets in W. Bengal
1978
ICRISAT
Major review and bibliography on grain marketing in the Sahel of West Africa, and assessment of priorities for social science research at the inception of their outreach programme - 4 months' fieldwork
1978
FAO/UNDP for Bangladesh Agricultural Research Council
Member and Rapporteur of Task Force on ‘Post Harvest Processing and By Products Utilisation’, Bangladesh - 6 weeks' fieldwork