Dr. Sitakanta Panda is Assistant Professor at the School of Humanities, Social Sciences and Management; Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar. His fields of interest include empirical Development Economics, Political Economics (corruption and governance, political institutions, elections, public policy), Labour Economics, Business Ethics, Law and Economics, Public Economics, Health Economics, and Entrepreneurship. Over the years, he’s taught and been teaching an assortment of courses related to economics, management, and public policy, at UG and PG levels at various reputed institutions.

Earlier, Dr. Panda was Assistant Professor of Economics at Indian Institute of Technology Bhilai and Indian Institute of Management Amritsar. His post-PhD work experience also includes brief stints as Fellow at Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER), New Delhi; and Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Chair of Political Economy & Development at University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland. Before his PhD Thesis defence, he was a Visiting Scientist at Economic Analysis Unit, Indian Statistical Institute Bangalore. His pre-PhD stints were at Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi; erstwhile Planning Commission; Tata Motors Limited; Mumbai, etc. He studied economics at Bhadrak Autonomous College (BA), University of Hyderabad (Masters), and Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (PhD Thesis title: “Essays on Empirical Political Economics”, the program was UGC SRF funded and had student visits to University of Zurich). During his student days, he had achieved state-level and university-level merit ranks, several scholarships and awards at different stages.

He serves as an Associate Editor at the following Scopus-indexed journals, namely, Cogent Economics & Finance (section: development economics), Journal of Public Affairs, SN Business & Economics (subject area: public policy and institutional economics), and SN Social Sciences (subject area: education, development and social justice). He is a Research Fellow of Global Labor Organization (GLO), Essen, Germany. He has been a reviewer of some international peer-reviewed economics, political science, and social science journals. He has presented his research in various national and international conferences; and delivered invited lectures at several institutions.

Please see his research work here, Google Scholar page here, opinion articles in media here, and teaching details here. His research work has been published in some leading international peer-reviewed journals in economics and social sciences such as Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Journal of Development Studies, European Journal of Development Research, Journal of International Development, India Review, International Journal of Public Administration, and International Journal of Social Economics. His opinion articles have been published in some national media outlets such as The New Indian Express, The Financial Express, The Hindu, The Hindu Business Line, and DailyO.