Anant Kamath

Dr Anant Kamath is a social scientist, who will soon begin his position at National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS), Bangalore, India. He has previously taught development, social research, and technological change at Azim Premji University. Anant was a doctoral scholar at the United Nations University – Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT) in The Netherlands, the Centre for Development Studies (CDS) in Trivandrum, and the Madras School of Economics. His research interests are in the economic sociology of technological change and experiences, and in the political economy of development. He is also involved in the western classical music scene in Bangalore, as principal violinist and lead of the Bangalore School of Music Chamber Orchestra.