Assoc ProfessorKrishna Chaitanya Vadlamannati

Krishna is an Associate Professor in International Development Studies at the School of Politics and International Relations (SPIRe), University College Dublin (UCD). He also serves as Director of the PhD program in Global Human Development. He Chairs the Athena Swan Application Committee. Previously he served as co-Chair of both Athena Swan Bronze Award and Athena Swan Implementation Committees. He is also a SFI Public Service Fellow with the Evidence Policy Unit of the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (DEFHERIS), Government of Ireland.


Krishna holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Heidelberg, Germany. Prior to UCD he was a Junior Professor at the Norwegian University of Science & Technology (NTNU), Norway and a Research Fellow at the University of Gottingen (Germany). He is Editor of The Journal of International Development. He also served on the editorial board committees of Journal of Peace Research (JPR) [2013-2022] and International Area Studies Review (IASR) [2016-2021]. He regularly provides consulting for corporate clients in India, Bangladesh, Kenya and policy think tanks like the Fraser Institute (Canada), Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) project (Sweden), Global Development Network (GDN), among others. So far, Krishna has lived in India, Sri Lanka, Spain, Germany, Norway and now Ireland. He has been working with multicultural and multidisciplinary (e.g., Politics, Economics, Finance & Banking, Management, Public Policy, Public Health, Anthropology, Sociology, Law, etc) students, research scholars, and Professors. 


Research interests: Development Politics in India at sub-national level; Political economy of Natural resources; International political economy and comparative development.