Venkatesh Athreya

Venkatesh Athreya, a chemical engineer-turned-development economist, served as Professor of Economics at Bharathidasan University, Tamil Nadu, for nearly three decades. His earlier works include Barriers Broken (co-authored with Djurfeldt and Lindberg, 1990) and Literacy and Empowerment (co-authored with Sheela Rani Chunkath, 1996). He was the lead author of The Report on the State of Food Insecurity in Rural India (2008) and The Report on the State of Food Insecurity in Urban India (2010). He has written extensively on issues of agrarian change, literacy, gender, infanticide, food security, human development and political economy.