Permanent Address: E1/17 Model Town Delhi-110009 Email : ashwanisharma11@hotmail.com Mobile: +99910033433 EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND CONCISE CURRICULUM VITAE Ashwani K. Sharma D Phil M.Phil MA BA (Hon.) International Relations/Global Political Economy, University of Sussex, UK International Relations/Global Political Economy, Department of Political Science, University of Delhi. International Relations, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University. Economics, University of Delhi. ACADEMIC AWARDS Commonwealth award for doctoral research in International Relations in the UK. Commonwealth Fellowship for independent research in International Relations in the UK. ACADEMIC POSITIONS 2010-date 2009-date Member, Advisory Committee/Governing Council, Developing Countries Research Centre, University of Delhi. Fellow, Developing Countries Research Centre, University of Delhi. 2008-2009 Fellow of Global Governance, Centre for Global and Transnational Politics, Department of Politics and International Relations, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. 2000-date Associate Professor, International Relations, University of Delhi. 1999-2000 Teaching Fellow, International Relations, University of Sussex, UK. 1983-2000 Assistant Professor, International Relations, University of Delhi.
RESEARCH INTERESTS International organisational theory, global political economy, the Third World in global political economy, global environmental politics, global economic governance, global social movements, and globalisation. PUBLICATIONS & WORK IN PROGRESS Globalisation, Liberalisation and Health Policy in India Asian Journal of Health Policy Vol. 16, No.1 (January 1998). Geopolitics and Immigration in Geopolitics Vol. 1, No. 2 ( June, 2010). Geopolitical Implications of International Migration: Bangladeshi Migrants in India (under publication by EPW). Is There a Third World? The Third World Coalition in Global Political Economy (forthcoming publication in Cambridge Studies in International Relations, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge).. Contesting Global Economic Governance: synergies created by the alliance of the Third World Coalition with Global Social Movements in the WTO and GEF. Book manuscript to be submitted to Oxford University Press, Oxford, by March 2013. Contesting Global Environmental Governance: GEF and the Third World, to be published in forthcoming issue of Globalisation (Journal of British Universities Global Studies Association). Global Environmental Politics and the Third World, to be submitted to Third World Quarterly (Cambridge University Press). CURRENT RESEARCH Contesting Global Economic Governance: synergies created by the alliance of the Third World Coalition with Global Social Movements in the WTO and the GEF TEACHING Courses on International Relations taught at the University of Delhi ( Department of Political Science, Department of Germanic and Romance Studies, and School of Environmental Studies, University of Delhi), and the University of Sussex, include: Global Political Economy and the Third World
Global Political Economy Politics of United Nations Political Economy of Globalisation Global Environmental Politics and Governance Introduction to International Relations Citizenship in a Globalising World RESEARCH SUPERVISION Supervision of research degree students (PhD and MPhil) of the Department of Political Science, University of Delhi, on issue areas related to global political economy. Currently, supervising three doctoral research degree students. Examiner for research degree students of Jawaharlal Nehru University on issues areas related to global political economy. OTHER ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES Course Development, University of Delhi: Society and Culture in Contemporary Europe, a compulsory course for students in the Department of Germanic and Romance Studies; and Globalisation, an application course for the newly restructured BA Programme. Committee member for committees to devise and revise compulsory courses for the MA Programme in Political Science, including courses on International Political Economy and International Relations Theory, 2004-2005. Head Examiner: International Relations; and Additional Head Examiner: International PoliticalEconomy Lectures delivered for refresher courses for assistant professors in Indian universities, organised by the Centre for Professional Development in Higher Education: India s Foreign Policy and the Global Security Environment (2006); Global Environmental Politics and Governance (2007). Coordinator: Committee for the Revision of Courses in International Relations for BA (Hon.) in Political Science, 2008-2009. Convener: UGC Project (2010-12) at the Developing Countries Research Centre (DCRC), University of Delhi, on Environment and Human Security. Co-convener, Committee on Research Methodology, DCRC, to devise and run a course on research methodology, 2009-11.
CONFERENCE PAPERS AND PUBLIC LECTURES (Selected) Contesting Global Economic Governance: synergies created by the alliance of the Third World Coalition with Global Social Movements in the GEF, paper presented at Royal Holloway, University of London, January 2009, and at the Developing Countries Research Centre, University of Delhi, November 2009. Terrorism, the Crisis in India and Regional Stability, panelist for Foreign Affairs Symposium of the University of London, December 2008. 'Contemporary Phase of Globalisation', lecture delivered at the workshop conducted by the South Campus, University of Delhi, for the foundation course entitled, 'Human Rights, Gender and Environment', December 2007. Globalisation and Higher Education in India, public lecture delivered at the New Convocation Hall, University of Delhi, January 2005. The Security Concerns of India and China, discussant at an International Conference held at the Institute of Chinese Studies, Delhi, February 2004. United Nations in an Era of Globalisation, public lecture at Kamla Nehru College, University of Delhi, March 2001. What is Globalisation? The Globalisation Thesis and the Third World, public lecture delivered at the IIT, New Delhi, October 2000. Beyond the Nation-State: South Asian Regional Cooperation, paper presented at Wilton Park Conference (UK), October 1999. Globalisation, Third World and Norms, paper presented at the University of Sussex, May 2000. ACADEMIC RELATED ADMINISTRATIVE ACTVITIES Convener/Member of Sports Committee, Admissions Committee, Development Committee, Library Committee, and Foreign Students Advisory Committee, University of Delhi. OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES Referee/Reviewer for Macmillan, Pearson Education and Sage Publishers for books on International Relations. Stint at the United Nations in New York in 1995-96.
REFEREE Professor Sandra Halperin Department of Politics and International Relations Co-Director, Centre for Global and Transnational Politics Royal Holloway, University of London Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX, UK Email: Sandra.Halperin@rhul.ac.uk Tel.: 44 (0)1784 414130