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Name
Discipline
Economy
Field(s) of Research/Expertise
Industrial economics
Current Affiliations
• Head Economist, Centre de Sciences Humaines,
• Associate Researcher, CERNA
Education
• 2001 Ph-D in industrial economics (dissertation written in English), with honours, CERNA (Centre for Industrial Economics), Ecole des Mines, Paris. "Administrations for sale: transforming the Indian State Electricity Boards into enterprises", superviser : P-N. Giraud.
Jury : X.Richet (Chair); J-M Glachant et J-M Chevalier (referees); J-F Huchet, Y.K. Alagh (former Union Minister, Government of India, and Vice-Chancellor, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi).
• 1996-97 DEA (M-Phil) Industrial Economics, Université de Paris I, "la réforme du secteur électrique de Côte d'Ivoire; une analyse néo-institutionnelle" (reform of the Ivory Coast Power Sector ; a neo-institutional analysis) under the supervision of J-M Glachant, Université Paris I.
• 1992-95 Postgraduate studies, Diplôme d'ingénieur civil des mines, Ecole des Mines de Paris.
• 1990-92 Preparation to scientific contests (" Classes préparatoires ") : admission in Ecole des Mines, Ecole Normale Supérieure (Lyon), Ecole Centrale (Paris), selected for Ecole Polytechnique.
Recent Publications

• 02-1, Against the Current: Organizational Restructuring of State Electricity Boards, Manohar Publishers, New Delhi, 224 p.
• 04-1. (With Prem Kalra) Against the Current II: technological choices in Indian power sector reforms, forth., Manohar Publishers, New Delhi, 2004.
• 04-2 (With Jean-François Huchet & Xavier Richet) Firms and the State: industrial and administrative models for Globalisation in China, India, Russia, forth., Manohar Publishers, New Delhi, 2004.
• 04-3 (With François Ireton) Volume 8, review of the CEDEJ (Cairo) " Inde-Egypte, une contribution aux concepts et politiques de développement " (Assessment of Development as a concept and as economic policies, under a comparative approach India-Egypt), first semester 2005.
• 01-2. Winners and Losers of the State Electricity Board Reforms : An Organisational Analysis, CSH Occasional Paper Series n°1, New Delhi, 2001, 85 p.
• 02-1. (Avec V.S. Saravanan et Marie-Hélène Zérah) The water & sanitation scenario in Indian metropolitan cities, CSH Occasional Paper Series n°6, New Delhi, 2001, 167 p.
• 01-1. "Investment Needs and Possible Incomes in Indian Power Sector to Bridge the Energy Gap", Indian Economic Journal, Vol 49 n 2, pp 15-25, October-December 2001. (reprint in 'Power sector in India and abroad', KBS Kumar ed., Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts of India).
• 01-2. "Le secteur électrique en Inde : réforme libérale ou persistance d'une forme de développement à l'indienne ?", Revue Tiers Monde, t. XLII, n°165, janvier-mars 2001, pp. 83-103.
• 02-1. The State Electricity Boards: private vs. public 'enterprisation', Indian Journal of Public Administration, Vol XLVIII, n°1, pp, 29-49, IIPA, New Delhi.
• 02-2. " 'Entreprisation' of the State Electricity Boards", The Journal of Public Enterprise, Vol. 25, nos 1-2, pp 1-13, Hyderabad, January-June 2002.
• 03-2 "East and West: the Intellectual in front of Globalisation", 12 p., in special issue " Culture and Globalisation " review Germinal, Delhi University, New Delhi.
• 04-1. Thinking the world through administrative procedures: An organisational Anthropology of the Indian civil servant, 25 p., Contributions to Indian Sociology, Delhi University, New Delhi, forth., 2004.
• Real Option to Privatise a Utility in India, and management contract as a limit case, 26 p, submitted to Utilities Policy, 12 December 2003. (earlier presented at Department of Applied Economics (Cambridge UK), DIAL (Paris), CERNA (Paris), & Group de Réformes Jean Monnet (Université Paris-XI).
• Optimal timing in privatisation of a utility in an emerging country: The case of electricity distribution in Delhi, South Asia Economic Journal, 32 p, submitted 16 October 2003.
• 02-1. "La mondialisation limitée du secteur électrique : de la prééminence des États au retour relatif du Centre", dans CHAUDHURI B., LANDY F., (eds.), De la mondialisation au développement local de l'Inde. Questions d'échelles, Editions CNRS, Paris, 2002, pp. 79-98.
• 02-2, A new paradigm for the Indian power sector : going beyond the 'silver bullet' privatisation, 220-262, in Privatisation of public enterprises, Indo-French perspectives and global relevance, Mishra & de Bernis, Manak Publishers, New Delhi. (reprint fortcoming in 'Power sector in India and abroad', KBS Kumar ed., Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts of India).
• 03-1. Planning of Indian Mega-Cities : Issues, the public and a pinch of civil society, 24 p., à paraître dans " Urbanisation in South Asia ", sous la direction de M.Mann & E.Hust, Manohar Publishers, New Delhi, 2003.
• 03-2. Avec M-H Zérah, Providing water supply and sanitation in Chennai: some recent institutional developments, en collaboration avec Marie-Hélèné Zérah, Actes de la table ronde " Water management in South India ", Institut Français de Pondichéry, sous la direction de P.Cohen & S.Janakarajan, coll. Sciences Sociales n°7.
• 03-3. The Political Meaning of a River: The Political Economy of the Narmada Dam, 35 p., à paraître dans Communication processes in India, dirigé par Vibod Parthasarti et Guy Poitevin, Sage Publishers, New Delhi.
• 03-4. Water in Urban India: scenario, the energy linkage, the private, Chapitre 12-4, India Infrastructure Report 2004, directed by Sebastian Morris, Oxford University Press.
• 03-5. Competition to serve : electricity management contracts in a constrained market of privatisation, 29 p., " New issues for the power sector in India " (titre provisoire), National Council for Applied Economic Research, New Delhi.
• 04-1. Rationales of globalisation: Information Technology firms in India and the European linkage, in "EU-India : economic integration", R.K. Jain ed., forthcoming, Radiant Publishers, New Delhi.

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