Dr Sarabjeet Dhody Natesan is an Associate Professor of Economics at the Division of Humanities and Social Sciences. She received her PhD in Management from IIT Madras, MS in Industrial Management from New Jersey Institute of Technology / Rutgers University, New Jersey, MBE from Delhi University and BA (Honours) in Economics from Jesus and Mary College, Delhi University.

After her Master’s program in the US, she worked as a Consultant at UNCTAD, UN, New York City. Her return to India was marked with an entrepreneurial journey to support setting up an innovative design and manufacturing engineering firm. She has taught various courses of Economics and Strategy at Delhi University, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Indian Institute of Management Indore and SPJIMR, at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

At SPJIMR (Mumbai), Dr Natesan also headed ADMAP. Here she taught administration to future managers and leaders.

Her area of research is in the interdisciplinary field of economics and policy implementation. Using quantitative and qualitative methods in evaluating policy learning and outcome evaluation and establishment of contextual factors affecting implementation, her current research is on the role of implementers in efficient and effective policy outcomes. She has researched and published on MGNREGA and its implementation. She is currently working on ‘Bazaars of 1947 – Micro Stories of Businesses in Post Partition India.’ Her research explores migration and its economic and social effects.

Dr Natesan’s journey to Krea reaffirms her faith in the power of undergraduate teaching and scripts her interest in co-creating interdisciplinary spaces and capacities for young impressionable minds. She is currently working on her first book on her diverse life experiences.

Macro-Economics

Public Policy

Economics of Conflict

Memory Studies

1) Natesan, S.D. and Marathe, R.R. (2014), “Literature Review of Policy Implementation” in International Journal of Public Policy (B Category Journal in ABDC Listing) (May 2015) 

2) Natesan, S.D., and Marathe, R.R. “Efficiency Benchmarking and Evaluation of MGNREGA Implementing States using Data Efficiency Analysis Approach” International Journal of Social Economics. (B Category Journal in ABDC Listing) (May 2016) 

3) Natesan, S.D., and Marathe, R.R. “The Importance of being a Policy Implementer” Public Administrative Quarterly (A Category Journal in ABDC Listing) (September 2017) 

4) Natesan, S.D., and Marathe, R.R. “MGNREGA Implementation in Tamil Nadu: Voices from the fields.” Indian Journal of Human Development 15, no. 1 (2021): 128-137. 

Accepted for Publication 

1) Natesan, S.D., and Marathe, R.R. Evaluating Policy using Structural Equation Modeling- Case study of MGNREGA IIM Bangalore Management Review (Elsevier) 

Conference Papers

1) Natesan., S.D., R. M. Madhumathi, and Vijayaragavan.,P.,“Policy Implementation Challenges: Issues, Context and Framework”. International Conference on Public Policy in Governance, Indian Institute of Science (IISC), Bangalore (September, 2011) 

2) Natesan, S.D., and Marathe, R.R., (2014) “Leadership In Governance: Implementing of Public Policy”, Second International Conference of Management in Governance and Leadership, Babson College, Boston, Massachusetts, USA(March 2014) 

3) Natesan, S.D., and Krishna M., “ADMAP-Bridging the Knowing- Doing Gap” Global Business School Network, Washington D.C., USA (November, 2018) 

4) Natesan, S.D., “ Role of SME’s in promoting gender equality at workplaces”, UMPRME, SPJIMR, Mumbai India (December, 2018) 

5) IIT Madras, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences Workshop on Food Memory Machines. August, 2021 .Paper Presented in the session on Food, Culture, Politics 

6) London Centre of Interdisciplinary Arts International Conference on Narratives of Displacement, October 2021 Paper Presented on: Bazaars of Post Partition India. 

7) XII IABA Turku, Finland International Conference 2022 Paper presented on The Place of my Memories. 

Other Publications 

Personal Pieces 

1) https://livewire.thewire.in/personal/sikhs-pagdis-turbans-dastar-farmer-protests-my-father/  

2) https://livewire.thewire.in/personal/the-tale-of-the-two-sardarni-raj-kaurs/  

3) The house by the sea- Hakara Bilingual (May 2022) 

https://www.hakara.in/the-house-by-the-sea-sarabjeet-dhody-natesan/  

4) My Mother’s Kitchen INNSAEI (October 2021) 

International Journal of Creative Literature, Art, Translation, and Research for Peace and Humanity 

5) Seasoning Our Lives 

6) Oneating – A multilingual journal of food and eating, June 2022. https://www.oneating.in/seasoning-our-lives/  

7) A Smile Like no Other, Usawa Literary Review December, 2022 https://www.usawa.in/issue-8/non-fiction/A-Smile-Like-no-Other.html  

8) The Ship of Life-Nanak Naam Jahaaz Hai, Chare So Uttre Paar 

9) This Kind of Child, Edited by K. Srilata, West Land Publications, December 2022. 

Opinion Pieces Sought (2020-21) 

The following articles on the Three Farm Bills have been published by Align India, a think tank:

1) https://www.alignindia.in/degh-tegh-fateh-loh-langar-tapde-rahen/  

2) https://www.alignindia.in/economics-the-economy-and-farmers/  

3) https://www.alignindia.in/the-case-for-agriculture/  

4) https://www.alignindia.in/the-morality-of-the-farmers-dissent/  

5) https://www.alignindia.in/who-watches-over-us/  

6) https://www.alignindia.in/the-winter-of-discontent/  

7) https://www.alignindia.in/the-concertina-of-the-three-corporate-documents-the-two-pin-cushions-and-the-missing-safety-net/     

Historical Research: Published in Nishaan Nagara 

1) A thousand hymns – Shabad Hazare. A personal narrative and analysis of the history and words of the hymn 

2) ’Mere Maan Loche’ by the Fifth Guru of the Sikhs, Guru Arjan Dev 

3) An Ode to the Tenth Master: A historical treatise on the writings of Guru Gobind Singh, the tenth Guru of The Sikhs

Honours, Awards, Leadership Roles

1) Won Best PhD Paper Award at the Second International Conference of Management in Governance and Leadership, Babson College, Boston, Massachusetts, USA (March 2014) 

2) Received the Tata Trusts – Partition Archive Research June 2021, to research the post-partition bazaars of New Delhi and their economic contribution to India’s growth

Principles of Economics

Macroeconomics-1

Macroeconomics-2

Economics of Public Policy – An Introduction to Public Policy