Smita Srinivas

Smita Srinivas specializes in economic development with a unique combination of scholarly and practical impact areas of economic development including technological innovation, industrial policy, knowledge and culture. She is the recipient of the Joan Robinson Prize (formerly Myrdal Prize) in 2015 by the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy (EAEPE) and recognized as the 2021 Clarence E. Ayres Scholar from the Association for Evolutionary Economics (AFEE), USA. With a Ph.D. from MIT in economic development and technology planning and numerous fellowships at Harvard Kennedy School of Government’s Belfer Centre for Science and International Affairs, she has longstanding experience teaching students in the world’s leading universities, and in multiple departments and research centers. Her earlier degrees are in physics and mathematics.