I am a professor of Economics, based at King's College London. My recent research has been in political economy and development economics.  In the past I have worked in social choice theory, strategic voting, turnout, and on information economics and mechanism design in a wide variety of contexts from corporate governance to social networks and development economics.  Most recently my work has been focused on voting with blockchain (theory) social networks and labour productivity (theory+ empirics) and on the problem of low female labour participation in India (theory+empirics). 

I received a grant from the Global Integrity Anti-Corruption (GI-ACE) initiative  as PI for a period of three years which was focused on issues of governance and accountability in top down audits vs community monitoring in India. I am  a board member of the International Corruption Academy in an advisory role for  GPMC (Global Program for Measuring Corruption). I have been Associate Editor of "Social Choice and Welfare" over the period 2008-2013, and am currently Associate Editor, International Tax and Public Finance (2016-current ) and Associate Editor, Journal of Public Economic Theory (2004- current),  and a Senior Editor of Oxford Open Economics. In the past I have been a council member of the Royal Economic Society, UK and a member of the academic advisory panel for the Dept of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs in the UK.  I have  published in various economics journals such as Social Choice and Welfare, the Journal of Economic Theory, Econometrica, The Journal of Public Economics, Review of Finance, Journal of Development Economics etc.