
Kausik Chaudhuri
I am a senior lecturer in economics at the University of Leeds, and I also hold visiting appointments at the Indian Institute of Management in Bangalore, India, the University of New South Wales and University of Sydney in Australia, and the Madras School of Economics in Chennai, India. I also hold the position of associate professor at the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research in Mumbai, India, and am a consultant economist for the World Bank, specialising in applied econometrics, empirical development economics and political economy.

Anindita Chakrabarti
Anindita Chakrabarti is a teaching fellow in economics at the University of Leeds and a fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Her main research interest is health economics, particularly evaluating the importance of socio-economic factors in explaining utilisation of maternal and child health care services in India. She is also interested in the importance of healthcare financing, particularly the importance of community-based heath insurance services as a source of financing private healthcare services among the rural community in India. Prior to joining Leeds University she worked in the faculty at the Madras School of Economics, Chennai, India, and at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, India.

Joht Singh Chandan
Dr Chandan is an academic clinical lecturer on the West Midlands public health registrar training scheme. He is based at the University of Birmingham. His primary research focuses on a public health approach to abuse and violence. He has expertise in population health data science, data linkage and medical education. Dr Chandan’s PhD focuses on the outcomes of individuals who have suffered child maltreatment and domestic abuse. He has numerous high impact factor publications in a variety of fields which have been disseminated on BBC News, Sky News and the other leading news outlets. Dr Chandan is also member of HDRUK and is the Midlands theme lead for mental health.

Siddhartha Bandyopadhyay
Siddhartha is an internationally recognised economist in the field of political economy and public policy. He was the recipient of the Duncan Black prize awarded by the Public Choice Society for his work on the electoral incentives of prosecutors with Bryan McCannon in 2015. His work on political coalitions has been published in internationally leading journals and has been widely cited by leading scholars in the field. His papers are on the reading list of a number of courses in political economy in reputed universities. He has a particular interest in the economics of crime and economic evaluation of policy. His research interests in this area includes game theoretic modelling of criminal behaviour, econometric (statistical) analysis of factors determining crime, cost benefit analysis of alternate interventions, and the impact of initiatives such as citizen reporting. He has published several papers in reputed journals across several disciplines as well and has been cited in both academic papers as well as policy reports, including the Official National Statistics.