CURRICULUM VITAE DR. ANWESHA ADITYA Department of Humanities and Social Sciences Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur West Bengal 721302 India Phone : +919836152954(M), +913222-283620 (O), +913222-283621 (R) E-mail : [email protected], [email protected] Date of Birth : April 29, 1985 Nationality : Indian PRESENT POSITION (from 07.08.2013 to till date) Assistant Professor Department of Humanities and Social Sciences Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur EDUCATION • 10th from West Bengal Board of Secondary Education with 86.5% in 2000. • 10+2 from West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education with 80.1% in 2002. • B.A. (Economics) from Jadavpur University, Kolkata with 70.5% in 2005 (Ranked First in the First Class). • M.A. (Economics) from Jadavpur University, Kolkata with 71.4% in 2007 (Ranked Second in the First Class)with specialization in International Economics, Financial Economics and Econometrics. • UGC-National Eligibility Test (NET) for Eligibility for Lectureship, 2013. • Ph.D. (Economics) from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, 2013. Title of the dissertation: Trade Liberalization, Product Variety and Growth. Supervisor: Dr. Rajat Acharyya. AREAS OF RESEARCH International Economics, Development Economics 1 TEACHING AREAS Courses Taught in Integrated MSc in Economics Programme (at IIT Kharagpur): Microeconomics I and II, International Trade, Statistics for Economics, Labour Economics Courses Taught in B.Tech: International Business (at IIT Kharagpur), Petroleum Economics & Management Business Environment & Policy (Masters in Human Resource & Management) Economics (at the Indian Institute of Petroleum & Energy, Vishakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh during Fall 2018, Spring 2020) PUBLICATIONS Publications in Refereed Journals • “Tariff Reductions, Terms of Trade and Product Variety” (co-authored with R. Acharyya), Journal of Economic Development (Chung Ang University), Vol. 41, No. 3, pages 75-103, 2016. • “Trade Liberalization and Export Diversification” (co-authored with R. Acharyya), International Review of Economics and Finance (Elsevier), vol.39, pp. 390-410, 2015. • “Export Diversification, Composition and Economic Growth: Evidence from Cross-Country Analysis” (co-authored with R. Acharyya), The Journal of International Trade and Economic Development (Taylor and Francis), Vol. 22, No. 7, pages 959-992, 2013. • “Does What Countries Export Matter? The Asian and Latin American Experience” (co-authored with R. Acharyya), Journal of Economic Development (Chung Ang University), Vol. 37, No. 3, pages 47-74, 2012. • “Intra-Industry Trade of India: Is it Horizontal or Vertical?” (co-authored with I. Gupta), Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 22, pages 29-38, 2019. Publication as Book Chapter • “Trade, Factor Flows and Product Variety in a Small Open Economy” in International Trade, Welfare and General Equilibrium: Contemporary and Emerging Perspectives, edited by Sugata Marjit and Saibal Kar, 2018, Cambridge University Press. Other Publications • “Export Diversification, Upstreamness and Global Value Chains: Experience of Commonwealth Member Countries” B. Guha-Khasnobis, and A. Aditya (2020), International Trade Working Paper 2020/03, Commonwealth Secretariat, London. 2 • Trade Liberalization, Product Variety and Growth (Published by: EXIM Bank of India, 2014), Occasional Paper. SPONSORED PROJECT Ongoing • Information Technology, Service Trade and Economic Growth: New Evidences from the Emerging Economies • Sponsored by Indian Council of Social Science Research, New Delhi (May 2019 -April 2021) (Project Investigator) • Analyzing the Determinants of Pandemic: A socio-economic cross-country study Funded by the Cisco Research Center University, USA under the scheme "Pandemic/COVID19 Science, Technology and Social Impact” (Co-Project Investigator) Completed • Trade liberalization and Export Quality: A Cross-Country Analysis. Sponsored by Sponsored Research and Industrial Consultancy, IIT Kharagpur (September 2014-September 2017). CONSULTANCY Ongoing • Employment and Global Value Chain Sponsor: UNDP India, New Delhi. (July – September 2020). Completed • Consultancy with the Commonwealth Secretariat, London to develop a Commonwealth Database on Export Diversification and Global value Chains for the 2020 Commonwealth Trade Review (November 2019 to February 2020). 3 • Background study for Nepal Human Development Report sponsored by the United Nations Development Programme in collaboration with the Nepal Planning Commission from July to October 2012. AWARDS AND HONOURS • International Economic Research Annual (IERA) Award 2013 by the Export-Import (EXIM) Bank of India for the best PhD dissertation in International Economics. • University Medal for standing First in order of merit at B.A. Examination in Economics, Jadavpur University, 2005. • Professor Anita Banerjee Memorial Gold Medal for securing the highest marks at B.A. in Economics, Jadavpur University, 2005. • Post Graduate Indira Gandhi Scholarship for Single Girl Child, UGC, 2005. FELLOWSHIPS • UGC Research Fellowship in Social Sciences and Humanities for Meritorious Students during 2010- 2012. • UNCTAD-India Doctoral International Trade Fellowship in the UNCTAD-DFID- Government of India sponsored project “Strategies and Preparedness of Trade in the Developing Country” during 2008- 2010. THESIS SUPERVISION PhD Thesis (On going) • Muhammed Najeeb (co-supervisor) (Area: Development Economics and Applied Econometrics) • Manish Kumar Sharma (Area: International Economics) • Abhinandan Das (Area: Development Studies) 4 M.Sc. Thesis • Relationship between Upstreamness Index, Carbon Dioxide emission and other macroeconomic Indicators, Akhil Agarwal, 2019-20. • Exchange rate fluctuations and trade balance: An analysis for India by Deepak Sharma, 2017-18. • Determinants of Regional Trade Agreements, Yash Parakh, 2017-18. • Intra-Industry Trade Indices for India by Ishan Gupta, 2016-17. • Merger Analysis: Impact of Market Structure and Efficiency Gains, Rahul Kashyap, 2015-16. • Currency Depreciation and India’s Trade Balances, Nishit Pratika, 2015-16. • Trade liberalisation and inequality: The Indian experience, Kunal Rathod, 2015-16. • Impact of China on India’s Exports to the GCC by S. Ashwin Kumar, 2014-15. • Trends and Sectoral Variations of Cross-Border Ventures in India by Rounak Gulati, 2014-15. • Exchange Rate and Export Competitiveness: The Indian Experience by Sneha Chilivery, 2013-14. B.Sc. Thesis • Intra-Industry Trade Indices for India by Ishan Gupta, 2014-15. • Democracy and Trade Openness: A comparative Study of India and China by Prateek Kedia, 2013-14. • The Determinants of Comparative Advantage of Outsourcing: A Case Study of India, 2013-14. • Sectoral Distribution of FDI in India by Karan Tejwani, 2013-14. The above information is true to the best of my knowledge. 5 .