Rahul Mukherji

Rahul Mukherji is Professor and Head of the Department of Political Science, located within the South Asia Institute in Heidelberg University. He is also the Deputy Director of the South Asia Institute. Rahul has taught at the National University of Singapore, the Jawaharlal Nehru University (New Delhi), Hunter College (New York) and the University of Vermont (Burlington). He serves on the board of journals such as India Review, Pacific Affairs and Governance. Rahul has co-authored with Sumit Ganguly, India Since 1980 (Cambridge University Press, 2011, Portuguese translation 2014). His two recent book are Political Economy of Reforms in India (Oxford University Press, 2014), and Globalization and Deregulation: Ideas, Interests and Institutional Change in India (Oxford University Press, 2014). Rahul holds a PhD in Political Science from Columbia University.

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Columbia University in the City of New York (1993 — 1999)
• Master's degree Jawaharlal Nehru University (1988 — 1990)

Companies

• Professor and Head, Department of Political Science, South Asia Instititute Heidelberg Universtät (2016)
• Associate Professor National University of Singapore (2008 — 2016)
• Associate Professor Jawaharlal Nehru University (2006 — 2008)
• Assistant Professor Jawaharlal Nehru University (2003 — 2006)
• Research Fellow Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Contemporary Studies (2001 — 2003)

Skills

• Stata
• Statistics
• Foreign Policy

Other

International Political Economy, Program Evaluation, Theory, Editing, Political Economy, Qualitative Research, Lecturing, Higher Education, Economics, Politics, Policy Analysis, Research, International Relations