Dipa Sinha

Biography

Dipa Sinha is a Development Economist with about 20 years of experience in teaching, research and policy advocacy. Her areas of expertise include social policy, especially related to public health, food and nutrition, gender and child rights. She has been a full time Academic, teaching at the Ambedkar University Delhi, for about nine years, where she taught undergraduate and postgraduate students as well as supervised research scholars. Prior to that, she has worked as a senior researcher and adviser with the Office of Commissioners to the Supreme Court, on the Right to Food. She has independently managed research studies and has been part of large international research collaborations. She has been a member of various policy-related committees of the state and union governments in India as well as on the governing bodies/advisory groups of independent organisations. She works closely with civil-society networks and campaigns in India and globally. She is involved actively with the Right to Food campaign, India. She writes regularly in national and international journals, newspapers and magazines.