IGNOU gets new V-C
2 Aug 2012 2:09 PM IST
Gopinath Pradhan took over the charge of as Vice Chancellor of Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) on Wednesday Afternoon. Earlier, he was the Director of School of Social Sciences (SOSS) of the university since 2010.
Pradhan joined IGNOU in 1993 as a reader in Economics and became a professor in 1998.
The 60-year-old professor completed his MA and Ph.D. from Odisha’s Sambalpur University in 1975 and 1984 respectively. His areas of specialisation are Development Economics, Industrial Economics, Public Economics and Quantitative Economics.
Prior to this, he was associated with the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, first as an economist and then as a senior economist.
He has been a post doctoral visiting scholar at the Centre for Asian Development Studies, Boston University, USA, post doctoral fellow at the Concordia University under Shastri Indo-Canadian Faculty Research programme, and a visiting fellow for Sustainable Forest Management at the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, New Delhi.
 He has handled various research projects pertaining to policy research.
Pradhan joined IGNOU in 1993 as a reader in Economics and became a professor in 1998.
The 60-year-old professor completed his MA and Ph.D. from Odisha’s Sambalpur University in 1975 and 1984 respectively. His areas of specialisation are Development Economics, Industrial Economics, Public Economics and Quantitative Economics.
Prior to this, he was associated with the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, first as an economist and then as a senior economist.
He has been a post doctoral visiting scholar at the Centre for Asian Development Studies, Boston University, USA, post doctoral fellow at the Concordia University under Shastri Indo-Canadian Faculty Research programme, and a visiting fellow for Sustainable Forest Management at the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, New Delhi.
 He has handled various research projects pertaining to policy research.
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