Dr. Ipsita Sarkar is a faculty member in the Department of Economics at St. Joseph’s University, Bengaluru. She holds a PhD from CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bengaluru. Her doctoral work focused on women’s non-farm self-employment in India. She qualified the UGC-NET and was a full-term centrally sponsored ICSSR doctoral fellow. Her teaching and research interest spans across diverse areas, including economics of gender, labour market dynamics in India, industry-academia collaboration in the Indian education system, and governance structure in the management of public service delivery in rural India. She has worked in several research projects with several institutions in various capacities such as the Institute for Human Development (IHD), New Delhi, and Institute for Social and Economic Change (ISEC), Bengaluru. Following her doctoral studies, she worked as a Senior Research Associate for the ‘Jal Jeevan Mission’ project at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB). She has published research articles, contributed to policy briefs and presented her work at several national and international conferences. She takes a keen interest in scholarly discussions and enjoys reading and travelling.