M. MahadevaM. Mahadeva is Professor, Institute of Finance and International Management (IFIM), Bengaluru, India. He was a research faculty of Economics in the Centre for Economic Studies and Research and the Centre for Agricultural Development nd Rural Transformation at the Institute for Social and Economic Change (ISEC), Bengaluru. He served at the Planning Commission of India as the Chairman of the Sub-Committee (Twelfth Five Year Plan), Member of the Working Group (Twelfth Five Year Plan), Member of the Steering Committee (Twelfth Five Year Plan) and Member of the Mid-Term Appraisal (Eleventh Five Year Plan). He has both teaching and research experience of about two decades and academic administrative experience for over fifteen years.

Professor Mahadeva obtained all three of his degrees from the University of Mysore, including the PhD in Economics (1987-93) on the theme “Market and Economics”. He was a visiting academic fellow in the University of Bristol, UK (December 2008 to April 2009); University of Toronto, Canada (October 2000 to January 2001); Institute for Housing and Urban Studies, (December 1997 to January 1998); Institute of Social Studies, The Netherlands (November to December 2010); and Maison Des Science De L’ Homme, France (December 1998). He has earned five international fellowships, including the Commonwealth Academic Scholarship. He has published extensively in the areas of housing poverty and deprivations, housing market and housing development players, financial exclusion/inclusion policies, and human settlement issues of poor and vulnerable households in both urban and rural contexts. Read More Read Less