Vegard Iversen University of Greenwich, UK
Vegard Iversen is a microeconomist with a Phd from University of Cambridge. For the last 7 1/2 years he has been based in New Delhi. Recent research has focused on village 'regimes' and caste disparities in rural India; the impacts of social audits on MNREGA delivery in Andhra Pradesh; how experience affects women's political leadership; the colonial origins of agricultural development in India. New research covers the garment industry, business history & private schooling in Lagos, Nigeria. Dr Iversen is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at IDPM, University of Manchester and the Editor of the Journal of South Asian Development. During the Delhi years, he has been a Professor and Vice Dean at Jindal School of Government and Public Policy (one year), a Visiting Faculty at Indian Statistical Institute (four years) and a Research Fellow in IFPRI’s New Delhi office. Before moving to Delhi he spent six years as a tenured member of Faculty and co-Director of the MA in Development Economics at School of Development Studies, University of East Anglia. Dr Vegard Iversen can be contacted at University of Manchester, UK. E-mail id: Vegard.Iversen@manchester.ac.uk
