Somdeb Lahiri

More than 18 years of professional experience, including teaching at IIM-Ahmedabad, IIT (Kanpur), Indian Institute of Science (Bangalore) and ISI (Calcutta).

Was Visitor at Indian Statistical Institute (Delhi Centre); Visiting Scientist in Management Science, De Groote School of Business, Mc Master University, Canada; Visiting Post Doctoral Fellow at Centre de Recherche en Economie et Statistique (Crest) of Ecole Nationale de la Statistique et de l'Administration Economique (ENSAE), France on a French Government Fellowship; Visiting Faculty at Department of Economics, McGill University, Canada; Visited Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw.

Over 45 publications in refereed journals since 1986; two publications on "Quasitransitive Rational Choice" and "Axiomatic Characterizations of Boolean Vote Aggregators" in edited volumes between 2003 and 2004; numerous publications in conference proceedings between 1990 and 2002 and over 20 Technical / Research Reports. Memberships of Professional Bodies include Life Member of Indian Econometric Society; Member, Working Group on "Modelling of Economies and Societies in Transition", Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw; Member, Editorial Advisory Council of the Pacific Economic Review (1996-1998); Senior Life-member, Operational Research Society of India; Member, International Society for Multi Criteria Decision Making; Member, Decision Analysis Society of INFORMS and Member, South African Econometric Society. Administration Memberships include Chairman, Economics Area, IIM-Ahmedabad (April 1992 to March 1993); Member, IIMA FPM Executive Committee (June 1996 to July, 1999); Member, IIMA Library Committee (April 1997 March 1999); Member, Academic Policy Committee, School of Economic and Business Sciences, WITS University (June 2001 to December 2002); Chair, Library Committee, School of Economic and Business Sciences, WITS University (July 2001 to December 2002); Member, WITS University Senate; and Member, WITS University Senate Library Committee (October 2001 to December 2003).

Areas of interest: Major Fields of Research include Social Choice Theory, Game Theory, Microeconomic Theory. Teaching Interests (and Experience) include Social Choice Theory, Microeconomic Theory; Real Analysis (Mathematics); and Finite Mathematics.