Nisha Srivastava
Nisha Srivastava
Visiting Professor
Education: Ph.D, Economics, University of Allahabad, Allahabad
M.A. Economics, University of Jodhpur, Rajasthan (Gold Medal for standing first)
B.A., University of Allahabad, UP, India.
Nisha Srivastava was formerly Professor, Dept of Economics at the University of Allahabad, India. She has earlier worked with the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), New Delhi, where, she was Head of the Research and Vulnerability Analysis unit. She led the Research team from UN WFP to collaborate with the Institute for Human Development and the Prof MS Swaminathan Foundation to prepare Food Security Atlas for several states.
While at WFP, Prof Srivastava led innovative research in frontier areas. These included a collaborative project on Small Area Estimation with the India Development Foundation, and a collaboration with the NSSO on Mapping food insecurity at the district level. She also led a number of studies on poverty, food security, nutrition, gender, and livelihoods.
She has worked on projects with several national and international organisations including the Planning Commission, UNDP, World Bank, JBIC, FAO, IFAD, ESRC and IDRC among others. She was Member of a recently concluded Project on ‘The Dynamics of Gender Inequality in the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia’ SOAS, University of London, and ESRC, UK
She was the Co-PI on the Research Project on “Rural Transformation and Changes in Living Conditions in Less Dynamic States of India”, sponsored by ICSSR, New Delhi
She was invited by UNDP and Government of Uttar Pradesh to take joint responsibility for the writing of the First Uttar Pradesh Human Development Report. She was Co-PI in the Project Women’s Autonomy and the Nutritional Status of Children in India that was funded by the ESRC, UK as part of the Pathfinder Research Projects
Some of her recent publications (with co-authors) include: Women’s Autonomy and the Nutritional Status of Children in India. Paper published in Economica, Volume 91, Issue 363 July 2024 and The Shining Auto Sector and its Dark Underbelly, published in Economic and Political Weekly, March 2, 2024.
She has been Editor of the Indian Journal of Economics. The Journal, started in 1916, is perhaps the oldest Journal of Economics in the country and has continued publication to this day.
She has been on the board of governors of commercial as well as non-profit organisations.
Prof Srivastava’s main areas of research include gender and its intersectionality with marginalised groups, employment, livelihoods, agriculture and rural development, food security and nutrition. She has been invited to participate in numerous conferences in India as well as abroad.