List of Executive Members of IASSI

(2026-2028)

Office Bearers

• Chairman
  Professor Sachin Chaturvedi
  Vice Chancellor, Nalanda University, Rajgir, Patna-Bihar
• Vice Chairs
  Professor Parmod Kumar
  Professor and Head, Agriculture Development and Rural Transformation Centre (ADRTC),
  Institute for Social and Economic Change (ISEC), Bengaluru
• Professor Vandana Upadhyay,
  Professor, Department of Economics, Rajiv Gandhi University, Itanagar
• Member-Secretary
  Professor Alok Kumar Mishra
  Professor, School of Economics, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad
• Joint Secretary
  Dr. Archana Sinha
  Professor Emeritus, Indian Social Institute, New Delhi
  and Senior Research Advisor, Population Council Institute, New Delhi

Institutional EC Members

• Professor Renu Cheema Vig
  Vice Chancellor, Panjab University, Chandigarh
• Professor Santishree Dhulipudi Pandit
  Vice Chancellor, Jawahar Lal Nehru University, New Delhi
• Dr. S P Ahuja
  Chief Functionary, Centre for Research, Planning & Action, Hailey Road, New Delhi
• Professor Debolina Kundu
  Director, National Institute for Urban Affairs, New Delhi
• Dr. Kairam Narsaiah
  Director - ICAR-Aravindan Agricultural Statistics Research Institute, Library Avenue, New Delhi
• Professor S C Rai
  Secretary General, National Association of Geographers, India, C/o Dept. of Geography, University of Delhi, Delhi
• Rev. Fr. Dr. Saju M D CMI
  Principal & Ex-Officio Secretary, Rajagiri College of Social Sciences, Kochi
• Professor K Gangadhara Rao
  Vice Chancellor, Acharya Nagarjuna University, Nagarjuna Nagar
• Shri Sanjay Kumar Agarwal IAS
  Director General, National Institute of Agricultural Extension Management, Hyderabad
• Dr. C Shiva Raju
  Vice Chancellor, Bangalore University, Bangalore
• Professor P S Nair
  President, Kerala Statistical Institute, Thiruvananthapuram
• Dr. S Bindu
  Director, Kerala Institute for Research Training & Development Studies of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (KIRTADS), Kozihokode (Kerela)
• Professor Umakant Dash
  Vice Chancellor, Gokhale Institute of Politics & Economics, Pune
• Professor (Dr.) Vijay Fulari
  Vice Chancellor. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, Aurangabad
• Dr. Manali Makarand Kshirsagar
  Vice Chancellor, Rashtrasant Tukuadoji Maharaj Nagpur University, Nagpur
• Professor Ujwala Chakradeo
  Vice Chancellor, S N D T Women’s University, Mumbai
• Mr. Rajiv Gandhi
  President, Dr. Vikram A. Sarabhai AMA, Memorial Trust, Ahmedabad
• Professor B V Sharma
  Director, Anthropological Survey of India, Kolkata
• Professor Dinesh Chandra Rai
  Vice Chancellor, Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar Bihar University, Muzaffarpur
• Dr. Punyavrat Suvimalendu Pandey
  Vice Chancellor, Dr. Rajendra Prasad Central Agricultural University, Samastipur
• Dr. Anupam Mishra
  Vice Chancellor, Central Agricultural University, Imphal
• Professor Ashu Rani
  Vice Chancellor. B.R. Ambedkar University, Institute of Social Sciences, Paliwal Park, Agra
• Professor (Dr.) Pawan Kumar Sharma
  Vice Chancellor, Jai Narain Vyas University, Jodhpur
• Professor (Dr.) S Surya Prakash
  Director, National Law Institute University, Bhopal

Ex-officio Members (ICSSR, AIU, UGC)

• Professor Dhananjay Singh
  Member Secretary, Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR), Ministry of Education, Government of India
• Dr. (Mrs) Pankaj Mittal
  Secretary-General, Association of Indian Universities
• Prof. Shyama Rath
  Secretary, University Grants Commission

Members Co-opted by the EC

• Professor S. R. Hashim
  Editor, IASSI Quarterly and Former Chairman, IASSI; Former Chairman, Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) and Former Member/Member-Secretary, Planning Commission
• Professor S. Mahendra Dev
  Chairman, Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council (EAC-PM)
• Professor E. Revathi
  Director, Centre for Economic and Social Studies (CESS)
• Dr. Archana Sinha
  Professor Emeritus, Indian Social Institute, New Delhi
  and Senior Research Advisor, Population Council Institute, New Delhi
• Professor Alakh N. Sharma
  Director, Institute for Human Development (IHD)
• Dr. Nalin Bharti
  Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT, Patna
• Professor Jyoti Chandiramani
  Director, Symbiosis School of Economics & Dean of Humanities
• Professor Adluri Subramanyam Raju
  Professor & Head, Centre for South Asian Studies, Pondicherry
• Professor Jayanta Choudhury
  Head, Department of Rural Development & Planning, Nagaland University
• Professor Dipankar Sengupta
  Professor of Economics, University of Jammu
• Dr. Swati Bisht
  Associate Professor, School of Management
• Professor I C Awasthi
  Former Member Secretary, IASSI, Institute for Human Development (IHD)