Manasi joined IFMR GSB in 2019 after her Post-graduation in the area of Economics. Her interest lies in the broad area of Development Economics. She is inquisitive about the state development policies, especially of Kerala. She interned at the Centre for Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram on the Kerala Development Model. Her current research area lies in the field of Energy Economics. She is looking at energy poverty and related energy policies in the Indian context. She is also partial towards industrial economics. 

• Professional Background:

  1. Intern, Centre for Development Studies, Trivandrum, Kerala (2017). During this period, she researched various aspects of the Kerala Development Model and prepared a study report titled “Kerala Development Model: Effectiveness and Accountability”.

    Independent Research Studies at IFMR-GSB:

  1. “Growth Of Indian Pharmaceutical Firms: An Empirical Analysis” co-authored with Prof. Madhuri Saripalle.  Link to the paper

Paper titled Growth of the Indian Pharmaceutical Firms: An empirical analysis:

Presented at:

1. The 17th Comparative Analysis of Enterprise Data (CAED) Conference on Research Using Enterprise Microdata (2021), Faculty of Economics, University of Coimbra, Portugal [Virtual]

Paper titled Definition, Measurement and Determinants of Energy Poverty: Empirical Evidence from Indian Households

Presented at:

1. The 2023 Research Scholar’s Day, IIT Kanpur, India
2. The Management Development Colloquium, School of Management and Entrepreneurship (2023), IIT Jodhpur, india
3. The Management Education and Research Colloquium (2023), IIM Kashipur, India
4. The 7th Joint Nordic Development Research Conference (2023), Uppsala University, Sweden

Accepted at:

1) The 13th International Conference on Excellence in Research and Education (CERE 2023), IIM Indore

2) The 31st Annual Conference on Pacific Basin Finance, Economics, Accounting and Management (2023), Taiwan

3) The 18th Italian Association of Energy Economists European Conference (2023), Bocconi University, Italy

Manasi finds her peace among old books and novels, though lately, kindle has replaced most of them. She is an avid movie watcher too, and doesn’t discriminate against languages. In a nutshell, she loves to escape to an alternate reality where she is just a bystander watching  the world unfolding around her.    

Academic Background:

MA in Economics, Loyola College, Madras University, Chennai

BA in  Economics, Stella Maris College, Madras University, Chennai