Prakash is a versatile economist with Ph.D. in Economics from University of Delhi, India and M.Phil from IIT Bombay. He specializes in Financial Development and sub-themes of Development, including Regional Growth, Innovation, ICT, Access to Finance and Productivity inter linkages at firm level and International Trade. His research works are guided by policy relevance. He has been a recipient of ICSSR Doctoral Fellow at Institute of Economic Growth (IEG) and Arunachala Mudaliar Gold Medal for his M.A. in Applied Econometrics from Pondicherry Central University, India. He is well equipped to manage variety of data including unit level data: NSSO, ASI, COMTRADE, WBES, etc. He has played instrumental role as a junior faculty in the Indian Economic Service Officer Trainees, training at IEG. He taught there applied econometrics and dealing with data. He has also taught applied econometrics, applied time series econometrics at various capacity building training. To compliment his academic progression, he has undertaken many independent research assignments at key academic institutions such as IEG; IDE-JETRO; ARTNeT-UNESCAP; and also with Senior Economists at the World Bank. This has helped him further his analytical acumen and presentation aptitude.