Amir Ullah Khan

Dr. Amir Ullah Khan
Amir Ullah Khan in August 2013
Education	economist
Alma mater	Osmania University Institute of Rural Management Anand Jamia Millia University
Occupation	Director
Employer	Aequitas Research

Dr. Amir Ullah Khan is an Indian economist.

Career

He has worked on development issues primarily in the Health, education and agriculture sectors. Amir studied at the Institute of Rural Management Anand and has a PhD in Economics and Business Studies from the Jamia Millia University. He graduated in Electronics and Communication Engineering from the Osmania University. He has worked as a Researcher for the Ministry of Finance, Government of India and the UNDP at Project LARGE (Legal Adjustments and Reforms for Globalising the Economy). He is senior policy advisor to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

He is currently also a member of the Board of Governors at the Digital Empowerment Foundation, Welham Girls School and the Presidency University, Bangalore. He is also a member in the Telangana Government's Commission of Inquiry on Socio economic conditions headed by G Sudhir. He edits Sage's journal of Development Policy and Practice with Dr Bobby John.He has been Founder Vice Chancellor at the Glocal University in Saharanpur, Executive Director and Editor at Encyclopaedia Britannica, Senior fellow and Director at the India Development Foundation and Adjunct Professor of Business and Law at the Edith Cowan University. Amir teaches at the Indian School of Business in Hyderabad, the Manipal Institute of Technology, the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade in Delhi.

He is a regular guest faculty at the Foreign Service Institute, Ministry of External Affairs and Fore School of Management in New Delhi. He has worked on various research projects for the European Commission, National Council for Applied Economic Research, Planning Commission, Confederation of Indian Industry and the World Bank and has written on Economics and policy issues.

At the US-India Policy Institute in 2013 (L to R): Dr. Amir Ullah Khan, then Vice-Chancellor of Glocal University; Gerald Shields LL.M., US Treasury Department; Dr. Abusaleh Shariff, Executive Director and Chief Scholar of the US-India Policy Institute

On 27 August 2013, Dr. Khan gave a lecture at the US-India Policy Institute in Washington, DC, on "Indian Economic Growth Patterns, Impact on Poverty and Sustainable Global Partnerships".^[1] On February 25, 2013 he gave a lecture at the Harvard School of Public Health as part of its Global Health Seminar series, on the Indian growth story and the impact on the health and other development sectors.

Publications

1. Education and Health: Special focus on Uttar Pradesh, with Rajiv Kumar, Glocal University Press, 2014
2. Common Property Resource management: A focus on Forestry, with Mousumi Majumdar, Academic Foundation, 2011
3. The WTO deadlocked: Understanding the dynamics of International Trade, with Debashis Chakraborty, Sage, June 2008
4. States of the Indian Economy, with Harsh Vivek, Sage, November 2007
5. Agri Business and the Small Farmer, Edited, Angus and Grapher, January 2006
6. India Pakistan Trade: Towards a prosperous South Asia, CII and IDF, October 2005
7. Intellectual Property Rights, Beyond 2005, with Bibek Debroy, DC Books, December 2004
8. Integrating the Rural poor into Markets, edited with Bibek Debroy, Academic Foundation, New Delhi, 2004
9. Enabling Agricultural markets for the small Indian farmer, edited with Bibek Debroy, Bookwell, New Delhi, 2003
10. Identification of Bottlenecks in the Judicial Procedure with Pushpa Sharma and Aparna Rajagopal, Allied Publishers Limited New Delhi; 1997

References

1. Shariff, Abusaleh (25 August 2013). "Indian Economic Growth Patterns, Impact on Poverty and Sustainable Global Partnerships". US India Policy Institute. Retrieved 25 August 2013.