Prof. Sachin Chaturvedi is currently the Vice Chancellor of Nalanda University. Before joining Nalanda, he was associated with the Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS), a New Delhi based think tank, where he worked extensively on issues of development economics, including development finance, SDGs, South–South cooperation and global trade, investment and innovation linkages, with a special focus on the WTO. Professor Chaturvedi has held visiting positions at several leading global institutions, including the MacMillan Center for International Affairs at Yale University (as Global Justice Fellow, 2009–10), Jawaharlal Nehru University, the University of Amsterdam, the Institute of Advanced Studies (Shimla), and the German Development Institute. He currently serves as an Independent Director on the Board of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI).