Specialization:
Public Policy & Institutional Reforms, South Asian Politics, and Environmental & Water Politics.
Ph.D., University of Delhi, 1994
Short Note
Satyajit Singh is a Professor in the Department of Political Science and the Department of Global Studies. He was previously a Professor at the Department of Political Science, University of Delhi. He has been the Founding Dean and Professor at School of Development Studies and School of Human Ecology, at Ambedkar University, Delhi; India Chair at Ryukoku University, Kyoto, Japan; Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex; Leverhulme Fellow for Environment and Development at the University of Sussex; and Asia Fellow at the Philippine Institute of Development Studies, Manila. He has worked in The World Bank and as Advisor, UNDP, UNICEF, & The European Commission, and in a few countries in the Asia-Pacific Region. His research interests include Public Policy & Institutional Reforms, South Asian Politics, and Environmental & Water Politics. He is one of the founders of the India Public Policy Network and the current convenor. His publications include The Local in Governance: Politics, Decentralization & Environment (OUP 2016); Taming the Waters: The Political Economy of Large Dams in India (OUP 1997); (co-ed) The Dam and the Nation: Displacement and Resettlement in the Narmada Valley (OUP, 1997); (co-ed) Decentralisation: Institutions and Politics in Rural India (OUP, 2007); (co-ed) Environmental Politics at the Local: Natural Resource Governance in India (Orient Blackswan, 2024); (ed) Polity as Fiction, Fiction as Polity: Raag Darbari (Orient Blackswan, 2026); and in press (co-ed) Public Policy Analysis in India, Bristol University Press (forthcoming). He has also published in Asian Survey, Policy & Society, among other places. He is currently working on water and climate change, as well as on a Handbook on Public Policy in India.
Courses:
Undergraduate
GLOBL2 Global Socioeconomic & Political Processes