Supriya Garikipati

Prof. Supriya Garikipati is a Professor in Sustainable Development and serves as the Director of the Centre for Sustainable Development, University College Dublin. She works in the area of Gender and Development. .

She completed her doctorate in development economics from the University of Cambridge (UK), where she was the recipient of the Nehru-Cambridge and British Chevening Scholarships. Previously, she has been a faculty member at the University of Cambridge (UK), the Open University (UK), and the University of Liverpool (UK).

Prof. Garikipati has over two decades of experience in academic and applied development research. Her work has received support from institutions like the British Academy, DFID, Nuffield Foundation, Newton Trust, and UKRI among others. Her research findings have been published in several leading peer-reviewed journals, and edited volumes, and also feature periodically in international media outlets.

Her research expertise is in the broad area of the political economy of growth and development with a focus on public policy and gender. She has researched extensively in the areas of development finance, social exclusion, female labour force participation, reproductive health, intra-household bargaining, and gender differences and discrimination. Her research has focused on India and sub-Saharan Africa.

In addition to her work as a professor of sustainable development, Prof. Garikipati served in advisory roles with national governments and bilateral and multilateral development agencies, including India’s National Rural Bank (NABARD), Society for Elimination of Rural Poverty, Department of Rural Development (SERP, DRD); Department for Water and Sanitation, WaterAid, and UNICEF.

She was awarded the Wrenbury Award for her research in 2001 and received the Outstanding Contribution to Research Impact Award in 2014.