Errol D’Souza is Professor of Economics and Director, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad. He obtained his Ph.D. as a University Grants Commission National Research Fellow from the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He has held appointments such as the IFCI Chair Professor at the University of Mumbai, India Chair Professor at the University Sciences Po in Paris, as a Visiting Professor of the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, as an Honorary Senior Fellow of the Institute of South Asian Studies at the National University of Singapore, a Visiting Scholar at Columbia University, and as a Visiting Professor at the Turin School of Development of the ILO. He has worked on academic committees of the University Grants Commission and the Indian Council of Social Science Research, and has been associated with the Planning Commission of India and the Reserve Bank of India in various capacities, including as a Member, Technical Advisory Committee on Monetary Policy. He has served on the Academic Councils of the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, the Institute for Human Development, Delhi, and is on the Advisory Board of the International Centre for Development and Decent Work at Kassel, Germany, and the Boards of the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, and India Gold Policy Centre.  Professor D’Souza is on the editorial board of the Journal of Quantitative Economics (Springer), the Indian Journal of Labour Economics (Springer). His areas of research interest are macroeconomics, development finance and public policy.