PROF. VISHWA BALLABH
President
Prof. Vishwa Ballabh is a Professor in Economics area in XLRI, Jamshedpur, currently serving as President to Executive Committee of NIRMAN.
Prof. Vishwa Ballabh is a Professor in Economics area in XLRI, Jamshedpur, currently serving as President to Executive Committee of NIRMAN. Prior to joining XLRI, he was Reserve Bank of India Chair Professor at the Institute of Rural management Anand. Prof Ballabh graduated in Agriculture from Pant Nagar and holds a Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics from Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi. He has been a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the International Crop Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) and was a Visiting Scholar at the Indiana University, USA and a Visiting Scientist at the International Rice Research Institute, Philippines. He has over twenty eight years of teaching and research experience. His major area of research interest has been institutions and natural resource management.
He is a member of several national and international professional societies in agricultural, natural resource economics and development fields. He was Vice President of Indian Society of Agricultural Economics 1996-97. He has published widely and co-edited two books titled, Farm Forestry in South Asia, Co-operative Management of Natural Resources. He is presently editing books on Droughts and Integrated Water Resource Management in South Asia : Issues, Alternatives and Futures (with Jasween Jairath), Governance of Water: Institutional Alternatives And Political Economy and Institutional alternatives and Governance of agriculture. He has also co-authored a monograph titled Organising for Rural Development. Widely travelled, Prof Ballabh has participated in several national and international conferences and has provided consultancy to several national and international development organizations such as the Ford Foundation, Royal Netherlands Embassy, UNICEF and International Water Management Institute.
