Nivedita Narain (PRADAN)

Nivedita Narain joined PRADAN in 1987 and has held a variety of leadership roles in the organization over the years and currently plays a leadership role in research in PRADAN, with particular focus on collaborative research. She is also Adjunct Faculty at the Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga in Australia. She has a PhD in management from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, a Masters in Rural Management from the Institute of Rural Management Anand and a Masters in Development Policy from Cornell University. Having established India’s first SHGs, she has worked in the area of women and gender, livelihoods, organisation development and human resources management and research. Nivedita has co-led the establishment of Development Practice with Ambedkar University Delhi. She has been an O’Brien Fellow at McGill University, Canada; an Atlantic Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics, UK; an Erasmus Mundus Fellow at Gottingen University, Germany; and a Senior Fellow at Ambedkar University Delhi. She serves on the boards of non-profits and scholar programmes. An example of her recent collaborative research is published in the European Journal for Development Research, titled - Destinations Matter: Social Policy and Migrant Workers in the Times of Covid.