Assoc ProfessorKrishna Chaitanya Vadlamannati

IPE committee of the International Political Science Association (IPSA)

strategic advisory and consulting to the National Institute of Secretariat Training & Development.

Member

Planning consultant to the Government of the Federated States of Micronesia, delivering multi-year strategic development planning and performance reporting in collaboration with UCD colleagues.

Invited Guest Talk to Indian Diplomats visiting UCD and DFA under the Ireland–India Diplomatic Exchange Program 2025.

Serving as India Century Roundtable Research Fellow at the India Century Roundtable thinktank, Australia.

Process

Research Ally Award 2024 by the Irish Research Council, Government of Ireland for outstanding supervisors and mentorship in supporting the academic research community across all career levels.

served as co-chair of a panel on Political Economy of Aid at European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) conference, 2024.

Public Service Fellowship at the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (DFHERIS), Government of Ireland under SFI Public Service Fellow program.

Nominated by students for "University Teaching and Learning Awards" at the University College Dublin (UCD) for the year 2023-24

Research Ally Award 2023 by the Irish Research Council, Government of Ireland for outstanding supervisors and mentorship in supporting the academic research community across all career levels.

co-organising inaugural Political Economy of Aid Conference 2023.

served as a consultant providing consulting services on developing professional educational programs and services at the Higher School of Professional Education, Warsaw, Poland.

Invited lecture and panel discussion at the inaugural UCD-SDG session at the International Association of Universities General Conference (2022)

Provide expert advice to the V-Dem–affiliated Oversight Board initiative on various case studies related to human rights abuses, academic freedom, among others.

2022: Teaching Excellence Award: Recipient of "Teaching and Learning Award in recognition of Teaching Excellence" awarded by the College of Social Sciences and Law, University College Dublin (UCD) for the academic year 2021-22.

Nominated by students for "University Teaching and Learning Awards" at the University College Dublin (UCD) for the year 2022-23

Organised virtual Dublin IPE Workshop in collaboration with Norwegian colleagues at NTNU, Norway.

Editor-in-Chief

Global Expert - to provide expert level review of the shortlisted research proposals & select the three finalists for the Japanese Award for Outstanding Research on Development (ORD), which is a competitive research grant program under the Global Development Awards 2020. The Awards is administered by the Global Development Network & supported by the Ministry of Finance, Government of Japan.

Country Expert for India & South Asia on the Varieties of Democracy project, providing regional intellectual leadership to research teams responsible for coding over 130 democracy indicators. In this role, I ensure analytical consistency and research integrity within a global dataset covering 201 countries since 1789.

External Examiner