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B.E.(Chemical)
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B.E. (Electronics and Computer Engineering)
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B.E.(Electronics and Instrumentation)
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Prof. Mini Thomas P  

hyderabad Economics & Finance

Associate Professor,
Department of Economics and Finance

K - 230, Department of Economics and Finance,
Birla Institute of Technology & Science (BITS) Pilani,
Hyderabad Campus, Jawahar Nagar,
Kapra Mandal, Medchal District - 500 078
Telangana State, India.
mini@hyderabad.bits-pilani.ac.in
+91 40 66303706
https://in.linkedin.com/in/mini-p-thomas-phd-68275b41

Awards and Recognition

  • 2025 - Invited as Discussant for technical session for 65th Conference of Indian Society of Labour Economics, Invited as Discussant for technical session for International Conference on Enabling Sustained Growth in Emerging Asia
  • 2025 - Paper on "Trade, Global Value Chains, Finance and Women Employment in BRICS Countries" based on doctoral work of my PhD student, Ummuhabeeba Chaliyan, won the prestigious IWWAGE Fellowship  from the IWWAGE (Institute for What Works to Advance Gender Equality).
  • 2024 - Won Early Career Research Award from United Nations ESCAP Bangkok for paper titled "Digital Trade and Wealth Inequality: Evidence from Asia Pacific region".
  • 2023 - Invited as Discussant for a technical session for Globelics 20th Anniversary International Conference held in GIFT, Trivandrum, Kerala; Travel Grant from ERIA Indonesia
  • 2022 - Evaluator for Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode (IIM-K) Scholars for Future Programme
  • 2021 - Contributor to research agenda setting exercise on "Gender and COVID19", formulated by United Nations University IIGH, Malaysia 
  • 2016 - Travel Grant from ISS Hague, Netherlands, to present research work at the 14th Development Dialogue
  • 2014 - Represented India as a 'Young Scientist' in the 5th Lindau Nobel Laureates Meeting in Economic Sciences, Germany
  • 2011 - Awarded Prof. D. M. Nanjundappa Endowment Prize in Economics for topper in ISEC PhD Coursework
  • 2009 - Awarded UGC - NET and JRF (Economics)

      Peer Reviewing Assignments

  • 2016 - 5th International Conference on Applied Econometrics
  • 2017 - Sage Publications textbook manuscript in Public Finance
  • 2020 - European Journal of Comparative Economics (SCOPUS)    
  • 2020 - Revista Brasileira de Política Internacional (SCOPUS)
  • 2021 - SN Business & Economics, Springer
  • 2022 - SN Business & Economics (twice); Book Chapter on Urban Ecologies of Divided Cities, Springer
  • 2023 - Regional Statistics (SCOPUS); Aarthika Charche: FPI Journal of Economics & Governance; Journal of Social and Economic Development (SCOPUS)
  • 2024 - Emerging Markets Finance and Trade (SCOPUS); South Asian Journal of Macroeconomics and Public Finance (SCOPUS); SN Business & Economics; Journal of Public Affairs (SCOPUS); Aarthika Charche: FPI Journal of Economics & Governance
  • 2025 - ISEC Working Paper Series; Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, Springer (SCOPUS)

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