Mausam Kumar

Mausam Kumar is a Post-doctoral Research Fellow with the Global Economic Governance Initiative (GEGI) at the Boston University Global Development Policy Center. Before joining the GDP Center, he was a post-doctoral researcher at the Harvard Kennedy School. He received his PhD from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. He has a master’s degree from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai and was a visiting scholar at the University of Gottingen, Germany. Mausam is a recipient of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Fellowship. He has also previously worked as a researcher at the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister of India.

His research interests include political economy, industrial policy and development finance. His current work with GEGI focuses on leveraging the institutional capacity of development finance institutions (DFIs) to address the goals of green transitions in developing countries.