Amita Batra is Senior Fellow at the Centre for Social and Economic Progress (CSEP), on leave from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) where she is Professor of Economics in the Centre for South Asian Studies, School of International Studies. She was also Senior Visiting Fellow at the Department of Political Economy, University of Sydney in 2018 and Visiting Professor at the University of Edinburgh in 2013. She has been Visiting Professor at the Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad. Professor Batra served as a member of the Advisory Group for G20 Finance Track Agenda, Ministry of Finance, Govt. of India (January 2022-December 2023). She is on the editorial committee/board of several national/international journals. Professor Batra writes a monthly column ‘Straight talk’ for the Business Standard, a leading financial daily in India. She has written and published extensively on economic integration, preferential trade agreements, International Trade and India’s trade policy issues. Her latest book is titled India’s Trade Policy in the 21st Century, Routledge, London, 2022. Professor Batra has an MA, M.Phil., PhD from Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi.