Prof Ashok Acharya is Visiting Professor at IMPRI. Ashok Acharya is Professor in the Department of Political Science, University of Delhi and Global Justice Fellow, Yale University. As a recipient of the Canadian Commonwealth Scholarship, he pursued and received his Ph. D. from the University of Toronto. He has co-edited Political Theory: An Introduction (Pearson, 2008) and edited Citizenship in a Globalizing World, 2nd Edn (Pearson, 2022) besides publishing articles in areas of multiculturalism, social justice and affirmative action.

He has been a Fellow at the Australian Social Science Academy, Canberra, the University of Birmingham, UK and has held the Henry Hart Rice Visiting Professorship at Yale University for the year 2012-13. He has also been a visiting Fellow at the University of Ghent (Belgium), Griffith University (Australia), University of Oslo (Norway), Southeast University (China) and Universitas Gadjah Mada (Indonesia). His areas of research interest include comparative and contemporary political theory, ethics and politics, and themes surrounding global justice. He has led the interdisciplinary Nyaya: Programme on Global Justice research programme at the University of Delhi in partnership with Yale University and University of Birmingham with major funding from the British Council’s UKIERI grants between 2012-2017. He presently is the Founding Director of the Centre for Ethics, Politics and Global Affairs, New Delhi and the Jt. Director of the Delhi School of Transnational Affairs, University of Delhi (IoE).