Santosh Mehrotra

Santosh Mehrotra is professor of economics, the Centre for Labour, Jawaharlal Nehru University. He has spent fifteen years with the United Nations in research positions, heading UNICEF’s global research programme at the Innocenti Research Centre, Florence, and as chief economist of the global Human Development Report, New York. He also headed the rural development and development policy divisions of the Planning Commission of India and advises the NITI Aayog, the Ministries of Labour, and Skill Development, GoI. His writings have been translated into several Indian and global languages. He posts on X as @SMehrotra1