About Me

Professor Saon Ray is an economist specialising in industry and international trade, her research interests include global value chains, technological upgrading of Indian industries, free trade agreements, technology transfer, foreign direct investment, efficiency and productivity of firms, financial inclusion, and energy and climate change related issues with an emphasis on questions of policy relevance.

She holds a Ph.d. in Economics from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi on the role of intellectual property rights in transferring technology to developing economies.

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Academic Qualifications: Ph.D. (Economics), Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 2001. (Topic: Some Aspects of Gains from technology Transfer)

Areas of Research: International Trade, Industrial Economics, Microeconomics, Energy Economics, Climate Change Adaptation and Applied Econometrics.

Academic Appointments:

Professor, ICRIER (2021-) (Visiting)

Senior Fellow, ICRIER (2009 – 2021)

Associate Professor, TERI University (2007 – 2009)

Assistant Professor, TERI University (2004 – 2006)

Research Associate, Research and Information System for the Non Aligned and other Developing Countries (RIS) (2003- 2004)

Sir Ratan Tata Post Doctoral Fellow, Institute of Economic Growth (2001-2003)

Administrative Appointments:

Head of the Department, Department of Policy Studies, TERI University (TERI School of Advanced Studies) – August 2007 to May 2009.

Awards:

Medal Finalist at Global Development Network (GDN) Fifth Annual Global Development Conference held on January 28-30, 2004 at New Delhi.

Fellowships:

University Grants Commission, Junior Research Fellow, 1993 and Senior Research Fellow, 1996.

Memberships:

Indian Econometric Society

Forum for Global Knowledge Sharing.

Visiting position:

Invited to visit Calcutta University, Economics department for a week in March 2009. Delivered lecture on ‘Trade environment linkage: the CGE approach.’