डॉ. तापस के. सारंगी

Professionally an economist with specialisation in Agricultural, Natural Resource & Labour Economics, Dr. Sarangi is at present working as a Deputy Director at National Institute of Labour Economics Research and Development (NILERD), Delhi under NITI Aayog, Government of India. He has conducted a number of research and evaluation studies and submitted reports to different Ministries in Government of India and other funding agencies including Ministry of Human Resource Development, Ministry of Education, Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, Ministry of MSME, Ministry of Minority Affairs, Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, DMEO, NITI Aayog, World Bank, NABARD, ICSSR, UGC, World Gold Council and TATA Trust.

He is also actively involved in Teaching and Training for Senior and Middle level government officials from Low and Middle Income developing countries under the Indian Technical and Economic Cooperation (ITEC) Programme of Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India.

He has earlier worked with Institute of Economic Growth (IEG), Delhi, Centre for Economic and Social Studies (CESS), Hyderabad, NABARD’s Bankers Institute of Rural Development (BIRD), Lucknow and Xavier Institute of Management (XIM), Bhubaneswar.

He holds MA, MPhil and PhD degrees in Economics from Sambalpur University, Odisha. He was the recipient of the centrally administered Doctoral Fellowship from ICSSR and the IEG-Think Tank Initiative Post Doctoral Fellowship from Institute of Economic Growth at University of Delhi supported by IDRC Canada, along with a Visiting Fellowship from Jamset Ji Tata Trust, Mumbai.

He has published research articles in professional journals and contributed papers to edited volumes, monographs and working papers published by Springer, Sage, Bloomsbury and Routledge. He co-authored “Climate Change, Livelihood Diversification and Well-Being-The Case of Rural Odisha”, published by Springer Nature, Singapore.

His research interests include Natural Resource Economics, Labour Economics, Climate Change, Human Resource Planning and Development, Rural Livelihood and issues relating to Tribal and Marginalised Communities.