Dilip Nachane is currently Chancellor, University of Manipur, Imphal, India; Professor Emeritus, IGIDR (Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research), Mumbai, India; National Fellow, Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR); Honorary Fellow, Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS), National University of Singapore; and Honorary Fellow, Indian School of Political Economy, Pune, India. He has earlier served as Director, Department of Economics, University of Mumbai (1993-99); Vice Chancellor, IGIDR (2007-10); Visiting Professor, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada (1988-89); Visiting Professor, University of Ulster, U.K. (1991-92); Hallsworth Fellow, University of Manchester, U.K. (1987-88); and Fulbright Fellow, University of Texas at Austin, USA (1982-83). He has served on several official committees such as Technical Advisory Committee on Monetary Policy, Reserve Bank of India (2005-11), and Member, Vijay Kelkar Committee on Regional Imbalances in Maharashtra (Govt. of Mah