Santosh Mehrotra is Professor of Economics at the Centre for Informal Sector and Labour Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University. He was earlier Director General of the National Institute for Labour Economics Research, the only research institute of the Planning Commission of India. Mehrotra also headed the Rural Development Division and then the Development Policy Division of the Commission. He was the team leader of the India Human Development Report 2011 and was the chief economist of the Human Development Report, New York. Professor Mehrotra's research has been translated into French, Spanish, Russian, Chinese and Portuguese.
