[Roll Call S1E9] Prof. Pulapre Balakrishnan - Being Aatmanirbhar in ideas & an Infra focus for Nation Building - a podcast by IIM Kozhikode Alumni Association

Prof. Pulapre Balakrishnan is one of India's leading economists and a founding faculty member of IIM Kozhikode, having taught the first eleven batchs from 1997 till 2007. He was educated at Moscow, Madras and New Delhi, and trained as an economist at Oxford and Cambridge. He left the World Bank in Washington DC, to join the newly founded IIM Kozhikode. He left a decade later, to similarly entrepreneurial academic pursuits, first as Director of the Centre for Development Studies at Thiruvananthapuram, where he launched the first MA program of JNU outside of JNU, and then in 2015 as faculty at Ashoka University, where he is currently teaching. He has for over two decades participated in the public discourse on India's economy via his popular writings, some of which can be found at https://www.pulaprebalakrishnan.in/  He is a recipient of the Malcolm Adiseshiah Award for Distinguished Contribution to Development Studies (2014).  

Prof. Balakrishnan was hosted on this episode of Roll Call by former student, Devroop Dhar of the IIM Kozhikode Class of 2006. Devroop Dhar is Co-founder and Managing Director at Primus Partners India, and a former Partner at KPMG India. The discussion will have two parts - a fireside chat between Prof. Balakrishnan and Devroop, followed by a Q&A with live audience questions. Prof. Balakrishnan will cover his suggested interventions for the Indian economy, his memories of the initial years of IIM Kozhikode and several other topics.

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