Sadhana Srivastava

Sadhana Srivastava received her PhD degree from National University of Singapore in 2008. Prior to her PhD, she also worked for the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER) in Delhi, India. Sadhana’s current research has focused on analysing the importance of foreign direct investment in global value chains in developing Asia as well as global outsourcing of services.

Her work in the context of comparing India and China’s FDI valuation system attracted significant international press and media attention and was cited by The Economist magazine in 2003. In 2011, Sadhana joined as a member of the Asia-Pacific Research and Training Network on Trade (ARTNeT) an open regional network composed of leading trade research institutions across the UNESCAP region, and supported by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Canada. She has contributed to the ARTNeT Working paper series in 2012.

Sadhana was successful in securing an individual external research grant of USD 5000 in 2016 from the International Labour Organization (ILO) for contributing to a background paper on Labour Provisions and Implications for Trade Agreements in the context of the members of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) trade agreement. This paper was among the first to analyze the implications of including labour provisions in regional trade agreements involving developing economies in Asia, especially India and China.