Smita S. Email & Phone Number

The Experience list here is partial and listed by year, not month/year. Dr/Prof Smita Srinivas is the 2021 AFEE Clarence E. Ayres Scholar (institutional economics) and 2015 EAEPE Joan Robinson Prize awardee (former Myrdal Prize, evolutionary economics/political economy) for her book Market Menagerie: Health and Development in Late Industrial States (Stanford University Press, Economics & Finance 2012). She holds a Ph.D. in Economic Development and Technology Planning from MIT, with prior training in economics, mathematics and physics.Smita Srinivas has extensive experience in economic development, including industrial strategy, firm-level priorities, technological innovation, and industrial policy. She is a frequently invited advisor, keynote speaker, author and grants awardee. CEOs, Directors, research organisations, universities, and government agencies seek her out for advice and leadership. She has held academic full-time as well as Honorary and Visiting appointments as faculty member, fellow with leadership roles in higher education in the world's leading universities These include among others University College London (STEaPP), the OU, the LSE, Columbia University, Harvard University, IISc, NCBS-TIFR, and think-tanks such as CTIER. She has served as Co-Chair, Scientist, and Expert Committee member on technical and policy advisory committees. She has advised the private sector, government, development agencies, NGOs, and civic initiatives. She has examined a large number of M.S. and Ph.D students (US, India, Europe) on economics and institutional analysis.Her expertise is strategic: problem-framing and theory, core concepts and goal-setting, high-level expert reviews including evaluation of methods, industry-specific technical plans, competitive investment domains, policy-responsive industry investment, fine-tuning policy instruments, and a focus on establishing ethical, high-impact policy process and partnerships. She has served in senior leadership positions in global higher education programs toward economics reform, planning or sustainability concerns. She founded the Technological Change Lab (TCLab,) originally at Columbia University, now a website of research and consulting, with a 3-way focus on Economic theory, Policy design, and Realistic development plans. Her MIT Ph.D in economic development and technology planning, draws on prior training in economics, physics, and mathematics.

Listed skills include Economics, Economic Development, Institutions And Governance, Policy Analysis, and 5 others.