Reetika khera biography channel

Privacy — is it a personal or a policy issue? The dictionary defines privacy as a state in which one is free of attention and today, that state is harder and harder to achieve. Our privacy is often being invaded without us even realising it and many shrug at this fate. “What do I have to hide?” is the standard response to privacy being lost but the real question is “Why is your privacy so precious to others?” With the data collected by the Unique Identity project, aka Aadhaar, surfacing in unexpected, unauthorised places, you must know what your rights are and how the government helps you uphold them (or not). In this episode of Let’s Talk About, Meghnad S, a Public Policy nerd and compulsive Lok Sabha TV watcher, speaks to lawyers, journalists, researchers, and businessmen to figure out what privacy is in the digital age and whether Aadhaar really is the way forward.

Reetika Khera is a Professor of economics at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi. She studied at the Delhi School of Economics (M.A. and Ph.D.) and Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex (). She did her post-doctoral research at Princeton University. In , she was Visiting Chair Professor ICCR-King's India Institute, at King's College London, and the International visitor at Stanford Humanities Center, Stanford University. In , she was awarded the Malcolm Adiseshaiah Award for Distinguished Contribution to Development Studies. Her research is focused on social policy in India, and she has published extensively in professional journals, magazines and newspapers on issues of food security, health and child nutrition, employment, education, etc. Her work on technology and welfare resulted in an edited collection titled "Dissent on Aadhaar: Big Data meets Big Brother".

This event is part of CSA's new South Asia Today Series.

Reetika Khera is Sulaiman Mutawa Associate Chair in Economics at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. She is a development economist whose work focuses on social policy issues including hunger, nutrition, public health, corruption, and basic education in India. Khera received her PhD in Economics from Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, and her in Development Studies from the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex. She has received fellowships from the Institute for Economic Growth, the Commonwealth Scholarship Scheme, King’s College London, and Princeton University.

Khera’s research has shaped several policy debates around India’s public services. For over fifteen years, she has conducted field studies on India’s public services – child-care centers, school meals, public health services, etc. – with a view to understanding the impact of government programs, contrasts across states, and change over time. She has published widely across disciplinary genres, including in the Journal of Development Studies, Food Po