Seeta Prabhu
“It is time to stand economic theory on its head…”Mahbub ul Haq 1971 ……….”
Seeta Prabhu is currently Visiting Professor and Senior Advisor, SDGs at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. She is a leading exponent of the human development approach and spearheaded the preparation of Human Development Reports across 26 Indian States as Head of Human Development Resource Centre, UNDP, India. The positions she occupied include Tata Chair Professor and Director, Prime Minister's Rural Development Fellows programme at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai and Professor of Development Economics, University of Mumbai. Her latest publications are “Human Development in an Unequal World”(Oxford University Press,2019) co-authored with Sandhya Iyer and Making Development Happen: Transformational Change in Rural India( Orient Blackswan, 2020) co-edited with S. Parasuraman.
INDUSTRY EXPERTISE
Visiting Professor and Senior Advisor, SDGs, Tata Institue of Social Sciences
Tata Chair Professor and Director, Prime Minister's Rural Development Fellows Programme, Tata Institute of Socail Sciences
Head, Human Development Resource Centre, United Nations Development Program
Professor of Development Economcis, University of Mumbai
ALMA MATER
Master’s degree in Economics, University of Mumbai
PhD in Economics, University of Mumbai
