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Prof. Mini Thomas P  

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.

Awards and Recognition

  • 2025 - Invited Speaker on the topic "Tariffs and Trade Tensions" at the 6th Economics Conclave, organised by the School of Economics, University of Hyderabad and IPE Hyderabad.
  • 2025 - Invited Resource person for "Telangana Rising 2047: The Future of Industry and Innovation" Workshop, organised by the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, under the aegis of the Government of Telangana.
  • 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 the Asia Pacific region".
  • 2023 - Travel Grant from Monash University Australia and ERIA Indonesia to present research work at ERIA Headquarters, Jakarta
  • 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
  • 2020 - Invited Talk, Sree Narayana College for Women, Kerala
  • 2019 - Invited Talk, IIT Hyderabad
  • 2018 - Invited Talk, Stella Maris College Chennai; Invited Talk, IIT Bombay 
  • 2016 - Travel Grant from the ISS, Netherlands, to present research work at the 14th Development Dialogue in the ISS Hague
  • 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

  • Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy (SCOPUS)
  • European Journal of Comparative Economics (SCOPUS)
  • Revista Brasileira de Política Internacional (SCOPUS)
  • SN Business & Economics (SCOPUS)
  • Regional Statistics (SCOPUS)
  • Journal of Social and Economic Development (SCOPUS)
  • Emerging Markets Finance and Trade (SCOPUS)
  • South Asian Journal of Macroeconomics and Public Finance (SCOPUS)
  • Journal of Public Affairs (SCOPUS)
  • Humanities & Social Sciences Communications (SCOPUS)
  • Millennial Asia (SCOPUS)
  • ISEC Working Paper Series
  • Aarthika Charche: FPI Journal of Economics & Governance
  • 5th International Conference on Applied Econometrics
  • Textbook manuscript in Public Finance, Sage
  • Book Chapter on Urban Ecologies of Divided Cities, Springer