Profile
Jerry Joseph serves as an Assistant Director at NILERD, specializing in international politics, local development, small-scale industries, vocational education and the study of marginalized communities.
He holds an M.A. in Politics and International Relations from Mahatma Gandhi University, an M.Phil. in Political Studies from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), and is currently pursuing his Ph.D. at JNU on the political economy of food security in Kerala.
Having joined NILERD, formerly IAMR, as a Research Associate in 1998, he has contributed to major government-sponsored research projects, book reviews and academic papers covering labour, employment and rural development.