13 Feb 2024

Patna, February 12. Professor Ajit Sinha, an internationally noted historian of economic thought, has joined as the new Director of Asian Development Research Institute (ADRI), Patna. Professor Sinha studied Economics at Delhi School of Economics and has a Ph.D. from State University of New York at Buffalo. He started his career as lecturer of economics at University of Delhi in 1982, and went on to teach economics at State University of New York at Buffalo, York University, Canada and The University of Newcastle, Australia. In 1999, he joined LBS National Academy of Administration, Mussoorie as Professor of Economics and Member Academic Council for two years. Since then, he has been Professor (and also Director) at Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Maître des Conférences Associé at Collège de France, Paris, Visiting Professor at Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research in Mumbai, University of Paris 1 (Sorbonne), University of Trento, Italy; Professor at Azim Premji University in Bangalore and the founding Chair, Research and Faculty Recruitment at the Thapar School of Liberal Arts and Sciences in Patiala. He has also been Visiting Fellow at the Delhi School of Economics, JNU, Bombay University and Visiting Scholar at Faculty of Economics and Politics, University of Cambridge, UK. He has also served as a member of several committees of ICSSR.