Biography
Dr. Emon Nandi is an Assistant Professor at the Centre of Excellence in Teacher Education (CETE) at Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai, India. Her teaching and research interests lie in the areas of Economics of Education, Education and Development and Higher Education. Currently, she is part of the TISS research team working on Innovative Finances for Education To Leave No One Behind (IFE-2-LNOB). Emon had received the Knowledge to Action mobility grant in 2024 and the Fulbright-Nehru Post-doctoral Fellowship in 2021 and worked at Boston College, MA, USA during 2021-22. Before that, she was working as an Assistant Professor at the Centre for Regulatory Policy and Governance, School of Habitat Studies, TISS, Mumbai. Prior to shifting to teaching, she worked as a Senior Research Coordinator at the Centre for Excellence in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in TISS and handled monitoring and evaluation of CSR funded projects in the social development sector. Prior to this, she worked as an Assistant Professor in Economics on in a government-aided college in West Bengal in India from 2014 to 2016. She had also worked in multinational research projects including Equalities for Public-Private Partnerships (EQUIPPPS) in education funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, UK. Currently, Emon is serving as an Executive Member of Comparative Education Society of India (CESI). Apart from work, Emon loves to travel, cook and paint.