Prabhat Pankaj

About

A quarter-century of asking: what is growth for?

Dr. Prabhat Pankaj portrait
Education
Ph.D. in Applied Economics, M.A. Economics
Executive Education
Harvard University — Management & Leadership in Higher Education
Current role
Professor & Director (Academics), Jaipuria Institute of Management, Jaipur

Dr. Prabhat Pankaj is a postgraduate in Economics and a Ph.D. in applied economics. He has taught Economics at the postgraduate and undergraduate level for about 26 years, in universities and B-Schools in India and abroad — including six years at Sherubtse College, Bhutan.

He has won prestigious engagements and fellowships from the Government of India and undertaken assignments in Europe, Thailand, Bangladesh, Bhutan and Sri Lanka. He is an expert on Bhutan's economic and social development, working extensively with the Centre for Bhutan Studies, Thimphu, and represented the Royal Government of Bhutan at the UNESCAP meet on the Post-Cancun Agenda.

A keen researcher and resource person on the economics of happiness, faculty leadership, effective teaching and outcome-based education, his work appears in the Times of India and the Economic Times. He was an invitee at the World Government Summit 2019 in Dubai by the UAE Ministry of Happiness.

At Jaipuria Jaipur, his initiatives blending formal and non-formal learning have been documented in an IIM-Ahmedabad case study on student engagement.

Trajectory

Selected milestones

  1. 2019

    World Government Summit, Dubai

    Invitee of the UAE Ministry of Happiness.

  2. 2018

    Director (Academics), Jaipuria Jaipur

    Leading academic vision at one of India's top management institutes; the IIM-Ahmedabad case study on Jaipuria's student engagement model documents this work.

  3. —

    Executive Education, Harvard University

    Management and Leadership in Higher Education.

  4. —

    Sherubtse College, Bhutan

    Six years teaching and researching the Bhutanese economy; collaborator with the Centre for Bhutan Studies, Thimphu.

  5. —

    Government of India fellowships

    Assignments across Europe, Thailand, Bangladesh, Bhutan and Sri Lanka.