Nirupam Bajpai, a US-based Indian

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and

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, is the Senior Research Scholar at the

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of the

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and the Senior Development Advisor and Director of its South Asia Program. He is the founding director of the Columbia Global Centers South Asia, an office he held between July 2010 and August 2014, and is the author of a number of publications, including ''India in the Era of Economic Reforms''.

Education and career

Bajpai, after graduating from

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and securing a PhD in economics in 1988, moved to US in 1992 where he worked at the

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before joining

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in 1995. He worked at Harvard University till 2002 during which time he also worked at the

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of the University and led the ''Harvard India Program''. In 2002, he joined

and is associated with the institution since then, working in various capacities.

Awards and recognition

He has been a part of the team under

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who served three successive Indian governments from 2002, two of them led by Manmohan Singh and one by Atal Bihari Vajpayee, as advisors on rural health and education services. The Government of India awarded him the fourth highest civilian honour of the

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, in 2008, for his contributions to society.

Books

* ''Improving Access and Efficiency in Public Health Services'', SAGE Publishing India, 2008, * ''India in the Era of Economic Reforms'', Oxford University Press, 1999,

Education and career

Awards and recognition

Books

See also

References

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Further reading