Dr.S.Madheswaran is working as a Professor at Centre for Economic studies and Policy, ISEC in Bangalore.

He has been engaged in teaching and researching Applied Econometrics for the past 18 years. He has published 68 research papers in well reputed international and national journals on various issues related to the Economics of Education, Economics of Labour, Environmental Economics with Applied Econometrics.

He worked as an adviser to the Government of Karnataka (India) and also as Chief Evaluation Officer at the Karnataka Evaluation Authority which is an independent evaluation body of the Government of Karnataka.He has completed many projects for both state and federal government and the findings of his work have been used for mid-course policy corrections by the government. He is also a member of many important committees set up by state and central government.

He joined IZA as a Research Fellow in January 2016.