Dr. Vijay P. Ojha, one of the founder directors of PMAID, was ECGC Chair Professor at the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT), New Delhi from January 2021 to April 2025. Prior to that, he worked as a Professor of Economics at the Institute of Management Technology (IMT), Ghaziabad, India, for more than ten years. Dr. Ojha obtained his Ph.D. on evaluation of trade liberalization in India using the Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) modelling methodology, from the Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, in 1997. Subsequently, in 2004, he was awarded the Commonwealth Academic Staff Fellowship for a post-doctoral tenure at the Environment Department, University of York, United Kingdom, to work on, “Carbon Emissions Abatement Strategies and Poverty Alleviation in India”.
He has more than four decades’ experience in teaching, research and consultancy. He specializes in CGE modelling as applied to policy making in trade, human capital, inclusive growth, and climate change. Apart from CGE, his area of expertise lies in wide-ranging subjects which include, Macroeconomics, Econometric Methods and Operational Research.
Dr. Ojha has delivered many invited lectures for prestigious host institutions, which include the World Bank, IDFC and the European Climate Foundation (ECF). He has also successfully executed several international research projects with their final reports translating fruitfully into policy advice, and has numerous publications in national and international journals.