Nirupam Bajpai, a US-based Indianeducationist andeconomist, is the Senior Research Scholar at theEarth Institute of theColumbia University and the Senior Development Advisor and Director of its South Asia Program.^[1][2] He is the founding director of theColumbia Global Centers South Asia, an office he held between July 2010 and August 2014,^[3] and is the author of a number of publications,^[4][5][6] includingIndia in the Era of Economic Reforms.^[7]

Bajpai, after graduating fromLucknow and securing aPhD in economics in 1988, moved to US in 1992 where he worked at theMassachusetts Institute of Technology before joiningHarvard Institute for International Development ofHarvard University in 1995.^[8] He worked at Harvard University till 2002 during which time he also worked at theKennedy School of Government of the University and led theHarvard India Program.^[3] In 2002, he joinedColumbia University and is associated with the institution since then, working in various capacities.

He has been a part of the team underJeffrey Sachs who served three successive Indian governments from 2002, two of them led byManmohan Singh and one byAtal Bihari Vajpayee, as advisors on rural health and education services.^[9]The Government of India awarded him the fourth highest civilian honour of thePadma Shri, in 2008, for his contributions to society.^[10]

• Improving Access and Efficiency in Public Health Services, SAGE Publishing India, 2008,ISBN 9351509338
• India in the Era of Economic Reforms, Oxford University Press, 1999,ISBN 0195648307

• Columbia Global Centers
• Earth Institute
• Jeffrey Sachs

• Jeffrey D. Sachs; Ashutosh Varshney; Nirupam Bajpai, eds. (2000).India in the Era of Economic Reforms. Oxford University Press. p. 336.ISBN 978-0195655292.
• Nirupam Bajpai (1996).India's economic reforms: Some lessons from East Asia. Harvard Institute for International Development.ASIN B0006QKXGE.
• Nirupam Bajpai (2001).Sustaining high rates of economic growth in India. Center for International Development.ASIN B0006RQU10.
• Nirupam Bajpai; Jeffrey D Sachs; Ravindra H Dholakia (2010).Improving Access and Efficiency in Public Health Services: Mid-term Evaluation of India's National Rural Health Mission. SAGE Publications. p. 144.ISBN 978-8132104582.

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