Dr. Harsh Mander

Harsh Mander regularly writes columns for Scroll, the Indian Express. The Hindu and the Wire, and wrote a fortnightly column for more than 12 years for the Hindu and the Hindustan Times; he also contributes frequently to scholarly journals.

He teaches courses on poverty and governance in the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad; and the India Leaders for Social Sector, among others. Past teaching assignments include the LBS National Academy of Administration, Mussoorie; the Open Society Internship for Rights and Governance in the European University; the Nelson Mandela Centre for Peace and Conflict Resolution, Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi; St Stephen’s College, Delhi, the Centre for Law and Governance, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi; and NALSAR (National Academy for Law) Hyderabad. He writes and speaks regularly on issues of social justice.

He delivered the inaugural of the Centre of South Asian Studies and a lecture on South Asian Public Affairs of Cambridge University. He has also lectured at the California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco; the Institute for Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK; ISS in the Hague; MIT, Boston, UCLA, Universities of Stanford, Washington (Stanford), Austin, and several others.