M.A. Oommen, Distinguished Fellow, Gulati Institute of Finance and Taxation (GIFT) & Honorary Fellow, Centre for Development Studies, Trivandrum. He was the senior fellow in Institute of Social Sciences, New Delhi. He is an economist of repute with a rich collection of professional papers and twenty books to his credit. A postdoctoral scholar of the Rockefeller Foundation and a Visiting Fellow at the Yale University, he was also a Senior Fulbrighter. He has taught in the Universities of Kerala, Calicut and Botswana over a span of more than three decades, and has occupied several important positions, besides serving several important commissions and committees in India and abroad. His books include Kerala Economy, Economics of Cinema, Issues in the Teaching of Economics in Indian Universities and Panchayats and their Finance.