Curriculum Vitae
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Current Positions
Associate Professor in
Infrastructure, Automation & Economic Transformation
Institute for Connected Communities
University of East London, 2026-
Director of Studies in Economics
Wolfson College, University of Cambridge, 2025-
Contact Details
Academic Positions
Other Positions
Education
Professional Services
Research Interests
Teaching Expertise
Research
Markets, Space and Infrastructure.
Chapter 1 in Public Policies and Business Strategies in India and
Europe: Ideas for a Sustainable, Inclusive and Resilient Society edited
by Bidisha Banerji, Sheetal Sharma. Springer Nature, 2025.
Spatial Infrastructure in the Modern Economy.
Chapter 10 in Perspectives in Contemporary Public Policy: Emerging Ideas
on Environment, Technology and Urbanization. edited by Bidisha Banerji.
Routledge, 2026.
Where is Public Infrastructure in the Solow Growth
Model?
Untangling the relationship between the Fiscal and Savings Channel,
Mimeo, 2024
Estimating the Emission Intensity Elasticity for 10
major pollutants Working paper. Mimeo, 2024.
Have I got a job for you? Automation, Market Structure
and Skills.
SSRN Working Paper No. 3213532, 2019.
Solow-swan Growth Model and the Fortunes of the
Commons. 2018. MPRA Paper No. 87921.
Beyond Microcredit: Giving the Poor a way to Save Their
way out of Poverty. Mimeo, 2018.
The Decline of Chartered Markets in 19th Century
Britain. 2017. Working paper. (with Lanxi Tu and Leigh Shaw-Taylor)
Sequential Group Lending with Moral Hazard. 2014.
Edinburgh School of Economics Discussion Paper Series, No. 136.
Does Subsidising the Cost of Capital Really Help the
Poorest? An Analysis of Saving Opportunities in Group Lending. 2007.
Edinburgh School of Economics Discussion Paper Series, No. 140.
Self Help Groups: Use of modified ROSCAs in
Microfinance. 2005. Edinburgh School of Economics Discussion Paper
Series, No. 137.
Other writings
Invited Lectures
Teaching
Courses Created
Economic Growth and
Infrastructure, 2019 onwards
UCL
Economics BCPM0058, UCL, 2018–2022
Economic
Development, LSE Summer School, 2007–2012
Credit
& Microfinance, University of Cambridge, 2007–2012
Economic
Growth, University of Edinburgh, 2005–2007
Courses Supervised at Cambridge:
Part
I: Micro, Macro, Mathematics, Statistics
Part IIA: Micro, Macro,
Economic Development
Part IIB: Micro, Macro, Economic Development,
Political Economy
PhD Supervision
Secondary Advisor: Lois Yixi Liao, Economic and Socio-Psychological Analyses of Social Housing Policies in the UK. PhD thesis, UCL, University College London, 2021.
Secondary Advisor: Kim Wagenaar. Profit and purpose: organisational type, social performance and outreach in microfinance. PhD thesis, University of Cambridge, 2015.
Journal Referee
Seminar Presentations
Conference Presentations
Other Experiences
Administrative Roles at Cambridge
Wolfson College, University of Cambridge
Director of Studies in Economics, 2025– ,
Murray Edwards College, University of
Cambridge
Director of Studies in Economics, 2007–2017,
Member of College Governing Council,
2013–2017,
Investment Committee, 2007–2011 ,
Finance Committee, 2007–2014,
Fellowship Committee, 2007–2009 ,
Catering and Events Committee, 2012–2017,
Acting Wine & Fellow’s Steward,
2015–2016,
Wine Committee, 2011–2017
Newnham College, University of Cambridge
Director of Studies in Economics , 2012–2017
Graduate Tutor, 2015–2017
Academic Policy
Committee, 2012–2017
Trinity College, University of Cambridge
Director of Studies in Economics, 2007–2012
Programming Skills
R, Python, Latex,
PHP Scripts, HTML