Dr. Kedar Vishnu Shankarrao

Dr. Kedar Vishnu trained as an Institutional Economist and currently serves as an Associate Professor of Economics in the Department of Social Sciences, Manipal Institute of Liberal Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, Bengaluru; Dr. Kedar earned his PhD from the Institute for Social and Economic Change (ISEC), Bengaluru, and his M.A. in Economics from Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Pune. His PhD was funded by the ADRTC (Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers' Welfare, Govt. of India); His research interests encompass Applied Econometrics, Macroeconomics, Agricultural Economics, and Institutional Economics. With over thirteen years of experience in teaching and research, Dr. Kedar has previously worked with the Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS), Mumbai, and Dr. B. R; Ambedkar School of Economics University (BASE), Bengaluru. At CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Pune, he headed the Economics programmes and played a key role in launching the M.Sc. Economics and B.Sc. Economics programmes; Dr. Kedar has contributed to various research projects funded by the Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India, and NIAP, New Delhi.

He has presented his research in the USA, Canada, Russia, Germany, Slovakia, China, Australia and Indonesia; He is a member of the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association. He has authored and contributed more than 45 opinion articles, editorials, and expert commentaries in leading Indian media outlets, including The Economic Times, Deccan Herald, Deccan Chronicle, The Hindu BusinessLine, ThePrint, Telangana Today, Sakal, Agrowon, Governance Now, and Policy Circle. His international academic engagements include Travel Grants for Early Career Professionals from the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA), Washington, USA, in 2025, 2023, and 2019, and travel support from the International Association of Agricultural Economists (IAAE), USA, and the Higher School of Economics (HSE), Russia, for presenting his research. In 2025, he was selected as an Australia Awards Recipient by the Australian Government’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) for the Agriculture and Food Security Short Course, India.

He is also a recipient of the Ronald Coase Fellowship from the Ronald Coase Institute, USA, awarded for his empirical research in Institutional Economics. He serves as the Examination Chair and IQAC Coordinator for the Department of Social Sciences. Since 2024, he has initiated the annual Union Budget Panel Discussion and the Nobel Prize in Economics Lecture Series, providing students with opportunities to engage critically with contemporary economic policy and recent developments in economics. He has pioneered experiential and student-centred pedagogical practices, including newspaper article writing, panel-discussion-based CIAs, empirical research and paper writing, and debates on contemporary issues in the Indian economy, fostering students’ analytical, research, communication, and critical-thinking skills.