12+ years of professional and academic experience in Research, Public Policy, Project Implementation, Monitoring, and Evaluation. I have extensive fieldwork experience around the adjacent areas of the International border of North East India such as Bhutan, Nepal, Bangladesh & Myanmar in the field of International Trade. I have published several articles and policy papers identifying International trade-related issues, Gender Dimensions in International Trade & Regional Connectivity in South Asian countries. Some of these papers and articles were cited by International Agencies like World Bank & the UN.My work on knowledge spillovers and determinants of cross-country patenting activities and their impact on origin and destination country has been published in reputed International Journals. I have introduced a unique way to calculate the Technology Index to capture the Technological Capabilities of developed and developing countries. My research Interest in Innovation Economy and International Trade in conjunction has inspired me to form an Organization, named, Centre for Innovation and Trade Economy (CITE), that can study these two overlapping aspects of the global economy together. I'm currently working with DSSE IIT Bombay and obtained a Ph.D. from IIT Indore in the discipline of Economics. I was also awarded prestigious scholarships by the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) and the Taiwan Education Experience program Scholarship by the Government of Taiwan. I have been awarded a project grant by the Department of Science and Technology (DST, GoI) and worked on another project supported by Dauphine, I PSL, (Chair of Women and Science, University of Paris-Dauphine, France.