Dr Debarpita Roy is Visiting Fellow – Urbanisation at CSEP. Previously, she has worked as a Fellow at the Indian Council for Research in International Economic Relations (ICRIER), New Delhi. She has also taught statistics, urban and real estate economics courses to post graduate students of business administration at leading business schools. Her industry experience includes working with JLL, an international property consultancy firm in their Consulting and Research division building up a Pan Indian real estate database. Her research interests encompass India’s contemporary urban issues and myriad facets of the urban economy. Her recent research is in the areas of affordable housing and municipal finance.

Dr Roy has several publications to her name and regularly presents her research at conferences. She is a PhD in Economics from Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University and a MA in Economics from Delhi School of Economics.