Traveling Agents? Political Change and Bureaucratic Turnover in India: A Joint Work with Anandi Mani, University of Warwick
CASI Seminar
Professor Lakshmi Iyer
Assistant Professor, Harvard Business School
Center for the Advanced Study of India 3600 Market Street, Suite 560 (5th floor) University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA 19104
Lakshmi Iyer is an economist in the Business, Government and the International Economy Unit at Harvard Business School. Her primary research fields are political economy and development economics, with a special emphasis on property rights institutions. Her work includes studies of historical and current institutions, such as colonialism and historical land rights in India and land reforms in Vietnam.
The Nand & Jeet Khemka Distinguished Lecture Series is an endowed public program of the Center for the Advanced Study of India (CASI). Launched in the 2007-08 academic year, and made possible through the generous support of the Nand & Jeet Khemka Foundation, the series brings renowned India specialists to the Penn community and serves as a critical forum for analyzing and understanding the complex economic, political, social, and cultural changes that the world’s largest democracy is experiencing, as well as the challenges that lie ahead.
The Saluja Global Fellows Program has been made possible by the generous gift from Vishal Saluja ENG’89 W’89. CASI was excited to launch the program during the 2022–23 academic year, coinciding with the Center’s 30th Anniversary. This new program enables CASI to invite eminent leaders and rising experts on contemporary India preferably from the fields of media, culture, law, and contemporary history to be in residence for one to two weeks at CASI.