Anish Sugathan is Assistant Professor at the Business Policy Area of the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad and is Research Affiliate at the International Growth Center at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His research interests are in the area of institutional and governance infrastructure of emerging economies that fosters sustainable development of private and public stakeholders. He holds an undergraduate degree in Engineering from the University of Kerala, and is a Fellow of the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore. He was the SAP Labs India doctoral scholar at IIM-B, and the Giorgio Ruffolo post-doctoral fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He has previously worked with IBM, BHEL, IIM-Bangalore, Center for Development Studies and Harvard Kennedy School’s Center for Business and Government in various capacities. At IIM-A, he teaches courses on corporate sustainability, strategic management, government systems and policy processes, data analysis, and applied econometric methods.