Food Supply Chain in India: Analysing the Potential for International Business

Arpita Mukherjee is a Professor at Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER), New Delhi. She has several years of experience in policy-oriented research working closely with the governments in India and the UK. She has conducted studies for various international organisations and Indian industry associations. Her research is a key contributor to India's negotiating strategies in the on-going Doha Round of WTO negotiations, in bilateral trade agreements and in domestic policy reforms. She has a PhD in Economics from the University of Portsmouth, UK. Her research interests include: services, WTO, bilateral/regional agreements; infrastructure, FDI, agriculture reforms, retail, migration and labour market programmes. She has over 80 publications including books, journals, working papers and government reports. Dr Mukherjee has presented her research at various international and national conferences.Tanu M. Goyal is a Research Associate at ICRIER. Her research interests include trade in services, foreign direct investment issues and retail. She has over five years of research experience and has worked on projects for the Government of India, Asian Development Bank (ADB), European Commission (EC), Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS), Italian Trade Commission, among others. She has extensively worked on international agreements and has authored reports providing negotiating strategy for the bilateral agreements being negotiated by the Indian government. She has published several international and national journal articles, book chapters, reports and other popular media articles on policy and trade issues. She has a Masters degree in Economics with specialisation in world economy, from Centre of Trade and Development (CITD), Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.Parthapratim Pal is a faculty member in the Economics Group at the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (IIMC). He has a PhD from Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi. He has done his Masters and MPhil in Economics from the same university. He has worked in the areas of macroeconomics, development, financial markets and international economy. Before joining IIMC, Prof Pal worked with the ICRIER and the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, New Delhi. He has published his works in various national and international books and journals. He has also worked as external consultant for organisations like TERI (The Energy and Resources Institute) and Ministry of Commerce, Government of India.Saubhik Deb is an economist and independent consultant. He has a PhD in Economics from Rutgers University, USA and an MA and MPhil from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He has worked as an Economist with World Bank at Washington DC. He has also worked as external consultant for ADB and ICRIER. He is working in the areas of development economics and open-economy macroeconomics and has published his works in various national and international journals.