3835 Campus Drive
Architecture Building (145 ARC)
College Park, MD 20742
United States
A reception precedes the lecture, at 6:15pm.
Professor M. V. Rajeev Gowda is an Indian Member of Parliament. He represents Karnataka state and the Indian National Congress party in the upper house, the Rajya Sabha. Until recently, he was Professor of Economics and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore where he also served as Chairperson, Centre for Public Policy. He has been a Director on the Central Board of the Reserve Bank of India and a Carnegie Council Global Ethics Fellow. His most recent co-edited book is India’s Risks, Oxford University Press India 2014.
He has a BA from St. Joseph’s College, Bangalore, an MA in Economics from Fordham University and a Ph.D. in Public Policy and Management from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He has been a post-doctoral fellow at the University of California, Berkeley and an Associate Professor at the University of Oklahoma.
Prof. Gowda founded the Resurgent India Trust, has mentored start-up companies and works on youth empowerment, among other areas of interest. An avid quizzer, Prof. Gowda was founder secretary of the Karnataka Quiz Association in 1983 and national runner-up on BBC TV's Mastermind India in 2002.
Lecture is sponsored by The Colvin Institute of Real Estate Development.