Institutional Framework for Collection of Statistics on Trade in Services

Arpita Mukherjee is a Professor at Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER), New Delhi. She has several years of experience in policy-oriented research, working closely with the government in India and policymakers in the EU, US, ASEAN and in East Asian countries. She has conducted studies for international organisations and Indian industry associations. She has authored chapters in joint study group reports set up by Indian government and has led research teams contributing to India's domestic policy reforms in areas such as logistics, retail, special economic zones and mega food parks. Dr Mukherjee has a PhD in Economics from the University of Portsmouth, UK. She has published widely and presented her research in various international and national forums.

Tanu M. Goyal is a Consultant at ICRIER. Her research interests include trade in services, retail sector, food supply chain, international trade agreements and policy and regulatory issues. Most of her work concerns trade, openness and restructuring of the Indian economy in the global landscape. At ICRIER, Tanu has worked on several projects for the Indian government, international aid agencies such as the Asian Development Bank (ADB), European Commission (EC) and academic institutions such as the Indian Institute of Management (IIM). She has published several international and national journal articles, book chapters, reports and other popular media articles on policy issues. She holds a Masters degree in Economics with specialisation in world economy, from Centre of Trade and Development (CITD), Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

Bhavook Bhardwaj is a Research Assistant at ICRIER. His research interests include international trade and trade in services. At ICRIER, he has worked on projects for the Indian government and international agencies such as the European Commission; and has contributed to policy reports and has also contributed to the Working Paper Series. He has a Masters degree in Economics with specialisation in environment and resource economics from TERI University, New Delhi.

Raj Kumar Shahi is the Informational Technology (IT) Manager at ICRIER with over 15 years of work experience in this field. He has been working at ICRIER since 2006 and maintains IT strategies, providing and implementing IT solutions in the work place. Time and again, he has assisted on research projects at ICRIER that require understanding of the IT systems and inputs from the IT field. He has worked on projects for the government and for other international agencies. In the past, Raj Kumar has co-authored a report on Competition in Mainframe. He holds a Master degree Science in Information Technology (MSc IT), Sikkim Manipal University, Gangtok, Sikkim, India. He also holds many advanced technical certifications.