Aditi Bhutoria

Aditi Bhutoria is an economist focusing on topics of education, technology, and public policy. She is an Assistant Professor with the Public Policy and Management Group at the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta where she teaches subjects like Indian Economic and Political History, Public Policy Evaluation, and Rethinking Education Policy. She has completed her DPhil Education from the University of Cambridge (UK) and M.Sc. Economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science (UK). Prior to joining IIM-C, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School (USA). She has worked as a research consultant for the Judge Business School, University of Cambridge (UK), the Government Office for Science (UK), and the Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), amongst others. Prof. Bhutoria’s private sector experience includes working with Swiss Re Services Ltd. (London, Zurich) with their Financial Audit team; and PricewaterhouseCoopers Ltd. (India) with their Social Sector Advisory, mainly engaging with state governments across India and neighboring countries. Prof. Bhutoria has been a Research Fellow at the Asian Century Foundation. She is currently a Research Advisor with the Global EdTech Hub (UK), research affiliate for the Education and Training Evaluation Commission (Kingdom of Saudi Arabia), and an associate at the Research for Equitable Access and Learning (REAL) Centre at the University of Cambridge (UK), Open Development and Education Ltd. (UK), and the Social Informatics Group (IIM-C, India). She has published in peer-reviewed international journals like Computers and Education, International Journal of Educational Research, Journal for Research on Educational Effectiveness, amongst others. She is also the coordinator for the Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation (CEI) and Programme Director for the Education Leaders Programme (EdLEAP) at IIMC.