Brief Profile

Durgesh K. Rai is Research Associate at ICRIER. He has done his M.Phil from Jawaharlal Nehru University , New Delhi . He is pursuing his PhD from the same institute. Prior to joining ICRIER, he was associated with National Labour Institute, NOIDA and worked for an ILO project on Global Production Systems and its Impact on Labour. He was also part of an OECD study on “Human Resource in Science and Technology (HRST) in India and International Mobility of High Skill Indians”. His broad areas of research interest include International Trade: Trade in Services, Regional/Bilateral Trade Agreements, ITES/BPO Sector, Trade and Development, Labour, Migration and Human Resources. He has worked on Construction and Consultancy Services Sector, which is part of the study on Trade in Services for the proposed India-EU Trade and Investment Agreement. He is associated with the ICRIER-SPF Japan Studies Project. Currently, he is working on India-Korea Trade and Investment Relations and Changing Dynamics of India’s Terms of Trade.