Social Sciences
Assistant Professor
02/04/2025
Ph.D. University of New Mexico, USA
Regular
soumi@irma.ac.in
(O) 02692221636
Prof Soumi Roy Chowdhury is currently serving as an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Rural Management Anand School in the Area of Social Sciences.
She completed her PhD in Economics from the University of New Mexico, USA . Her dissertation looked at the socio-economic consequences of cancer in developing countries. Prior to joining IRMA, she had worked at various organizations of repute in the capacity of an applied economic researcher. She was an Associate Fellow at the National Council of Applied Economic Research, a senior consultant at the George Washington University and Janaagraha. She has also been a visiting faculty at IIIT-Vadodara.
Prof Soumi is broadly interested in areas like Health Economics, Developmental issues and Public Policy. Lately she has been working on financial governance of states and local governments predominantly on areas like tracking the fund flows and expenditures of different government schemes.
