1990, PhD, MIT. Formerly: taught at Harvard and Michigan. Currently, Sol Goldman Professor of International Studies and Social Sciences, Brown University. Adviser/consultant: World Bank; UNDP; Club of Madrid. Former Member, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan's Commission on Millennium Development Goals. Author of: Democracy, Development and the Countryside: Urban-Rural Struggles in India; India in the Era of Economic Reforms; Ethnic Conflict and Civic Life. Occasional Columnist, Financial Times and Indian Express. Recipient of the Guggenheim, Carnegie, MacArthur and Ford Foundation awards for research.