Padmini Ram

Padmini Ram is Assistant Professor at the Department of Economic Studies,

Christ University, Bengaluru, India and Principal Investigator, CLARE, an

industry-academia collaboration on the informal economy between a Social

Enterprise, LabourNet and Christ University. She holds a PhD from the

University of Cambridge and has taught graduate and undergraduate students,

as well as professionals at universities in India and abroad. Her research

papers have been published in international journals. As a TED speaker, she

delivered a talk on the informal economy titled “Informal or Illegal? Voices

from the Fringe!”. Recently, she authored the book, "The Affordable Housing

Market in India" published by Routledge. She has also authored book chapters

and is a journal reviewer for leading publications. As an academic and a

practitioner, she is interested in the informal economy and studies it from the

perspective of economic sociology, political economy and public policy.