Trustees

BOARD OF TRUSTEES

The Board of Trustees of the Centre is composed of eminent research scholars having wide, diverse and rich experience of research and training in Economics, Agriculture with focus on marketing, pricing, Public Finance and Policy, Development Economics. The present Board of Trustees consists of the following:

TRUSTEES OF CSSS

The following are the Members of the present Board of Trustees:

  • Dr. A. P. Kulkarni (Chairman)
    Former Reader, Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Pune; Former Associate Vice President, Kirloskar Consultants Ltd., Pune; Former Director, Centre of Studies in Social Sciences, Presently Director, Centre of Quantitative Research, Pune. (Field of specialisation: Economics, Statistics, Research Methodology
  • Dr. S. N. Gadam (Director)
    Former Registrar, Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Pune; Former Reader, Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Pune. (Field of specialisation: Economics, Statistics)
  • (Ms) Bhushana Karandikar (Joint Director)
    Former Deputy Commissioner, Govt of Maharashtra, Independent Researcher Specialisation in Agriculture Marketing, Major research interests Food safety, food systems, trades and markets. )
  • Dr. S. G. Dhekane
    Former Head of Department  of economics, professor at  Pune university, special interest industrial and labour economics
  • Dr. (Ms) Sanjeevani Mulay
    Former Reader, Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Pune at Population Research Centre, Population projections, Major work in   Economics of health care, specifically in women health
  • Dr. (Ms) Medha Deshpande
    Former Head of Economics department at SNDT University, major work in Labour economics, Poverty. Currently Fellow of Institute of Advance studies, Shimala
  • Shri. Atul Thakar
    Engineer from IIT, Entrepreneur, Recipient of prestigious fellowships and prizes such as Hindu-Hitachi, Dr.Dharwadkar prize.
    Have developed over 25 broad categories of electronic components, sensors, equipments & instruments, and more than 100 variants of this range.

The following were the past members of the Board of Trustees:

  • Dr. M. D. Sathe
  • (Late) Dr. Prof. M. V. Namjoshi
  • (Late) Prof. Dr. A. S. Nadkarni
  • (Late) Dr. V. D. Deshpande
  • (Late) Prof. V. M. Sirsikar
  • (Late) Dr. P. S. Palande
  • (Late) Dr. Ram Bapat
  • (Late) Dr. V. M. Joglekar