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Pratap Bhanu Mehta is one of India's most prominent public intellectuals through his columns in Indian Express and has also been deeply engaged in public policy work as Member-Convenor of the Prime Minister of India’s National Knowledge Commission; member of the Supreme Court appointed commission on regulating Indian universities, and the author of a number of reports for leading Government of India and international agencies.

Dr. Mehta was previously the President of the Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi. He has also been Visiting Professor of Government at Harvard University and Professor at NYU Law School’s Global Faculty. His books include Rethinking Public Institutions in India, The Oxford Handbook of the Indian Constitution, The Oxford Companion to Politics in India, and The Burden of Democracy.

He is the winner of the INFOSYS PRIZE 2011, and the Adisheshiah Prize 2010