Rajeswari S. Raina (Ph.D. Economics) is a Professor with the Department of International Relations and Governance Studies, School of Humanities and Social Sciences in Shiv Nadar University, and Associate Director of the University’s Centre for Public Affairs and Critical Theory (C-PACT). She is a keen student of the interface between development policy and knowledge - formal organized science and technology as well as unorganized situated local knowledge systems. Her current research focuses on (a) Institutions and ways of knowing sustainability and complexity, (b) Theoretical and policy challenges in millet-based nutrition programmes, (c) Innovation for inclusive development in India and China, and (d) Changes in the knowledge-policy-practice continuum in agriculture-environment relationships.

She is a well published researcher, advisor to and participant in several environment-and-development programmes, public policy and scientific research programmes, both national and international, community-led and government or donor-led. As an active member of networks and professional societies on rural innovation, agrarian and rural studies, science-technology-society studies, rainfed agriculture, agroecology, institutional economics, ecological economics, and water, she is an ardent advocate of a bio-economic approach to a prosperous, equitable and sustainable world.

Educational Qualifications

• 1994 Ph.D. (Economics) Centre for Development Studies (CDS), Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala University
• 1987 M.Sc. in Agricultural Economics and Marketing Management, Agricultural College and Research Institute, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore
• 1984 B.Sc. in Agricultural Sciences, College of Agriculture, Kerala Agricultural University, Trichur
• 1984 Pre-Degree Course in Physics, Chemistry and Biology, Government College for Women, University of Kerala, Trivandrum

Work Experience

• 2016 – 2017 Professor and Head of the Department of International Relations and Governance Studies in School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Shiv Nadar University
• 11/921992 – 2016 09/16 Principal Scientist, National Institute of Science, Technology and Development Studies, (NISTADS)
• 06/05 2005 – 2009 11/09 Senior Fellow, Centre for Policy Research Dharma Marg, Chanakyapuri
• 01/87 1987 - 01/87 Agricultural Officer, Grade II, Kerala Agricultural Extension, Project (KAEP) Office, Palghat Division, Department of Agriculture, Government of Kerala,