Ajit Phadnis

EDUCATION:

• 2014-15 Fulbright-Nehru Doctoral Research Fellowship at Duke University, USA

• 2011- Fellow (Ph. D) Public Policy

• Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Bangalore, Bangalore India

• Advisors: Prof. Deepak Malghan, Prof. Herbert Kitschelt (Duke), Prof. S. Nayana Tara & Prof. L. Prasad

• 2005 -07 Post Graduate Diploma in Management (MBA) with First class

• Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Bangalore, Bangalore India

• Percentile of 99.63 in Common Admission Test (CAT) 2005

• 2000 –04 Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) Electrical Engineering with First class

• Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, Bombay India

• All India Rank (AIR) of 226 from over 120,000 candidates in IIT-JEE 2000

RESEARCH INTEREST:

Democracy and its institutions: parliament, political parties, legislative behaviour, interface between politics and public policy