Prof. Lakhwinder Singh

Prof. Lakhwinder Singh
Visiting Professor

Dr. Lakhwinder Singh is currently President of the 65th Indian Society of Labour Economics conference and Visiting Professor, Institute for Human Development (IHD), New Delhi. Prior to this, Dr. Singh has been Professor and Head, Department of Economics, Punjabi University, Patiala, India where he has founded Centre for Development Economics and Innovation Studies (CDEIS). He has also served as a senior economist at National Institute for Public Finance and Policy, New Delhi. Dr. Singh has been awarded prestigious scholarships such as Ford Foundation Post-Doctoral Scholarship in Economics and Asia Fellow of International Institute for Education (IIE), New York.

He is founding Editor, Millennial Asia-An International Journal of Asian Studies since 2009 which is published by SAGE and indexed in SCOPUS and Clarivate Analytics (ESCI). He has contributed ten books and more than a hundred articles in various reputed journals and leading national dailies. He has authored Agrarian Distress and Farmer Suicides in North India published by Routledge 2020 (second edition). His recent edited book is Reimagining Innovation Systems in the Covid and Post-Covid World. Professor Singh is Coordinator of Indialics-a Chapter of Globelics in India. He has held several visiting positions including Yale University, USA and Seoul National University, South Korea. His specialization is Development Economics, Innovation Systems, Regional Economics, Area Studies, and Punjab Economy. He has teaching experience of more than 32 years and has successfully supervised 21 Ph.Ds.