Dr. Rashmi Arora,

Associate Professor

Biography

Dr Rashmi Arora is an associate professor in development economics at University of Bradford, United Kingdom. She has worked earlier in the Department of Accounting, Finance and Economics, Griffith Business School, Griffith University and at the Centre for Asia Pacific Social Transformation Studies, University of Wollongong, Australia. She has also worked as Assistant Adviser and Research Officer in the Reserve Bank of India (India’s central bank) in its economic policy department for several years. Her current teaching and research areas are development finance, international economics, digital technology including digital finance, economic growth and developing economies. She has published in several well-known international journals including Journal of Institutional Economics, International Journal of Bank Marketing, Australian Economic History Review, World Development, Applied Economics, Journal of Developing Areas, Third World Quarterly among others. She holds a PhD in development studies from the University of Auckland, New Zealand, and MPhil in applied economics from Jawaharlal Nehru University, India. Rashmi is also a Fellow of UK Advance HE. She is a member of American Economic Association, Royal Economic Society, Association of Indian Economic and Financial Studies (AIEFS), USA and affiliate of Centre for International Development, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia and also Associate Member of New Zealand South Asia Centre, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand. She is also a member of Responsible FinTech (ResFinTech) Research Group at the University of Bradford and steering committee member, ICT4D North of England. She is associate editor, International Review of Business and Economics, University of Denver, US and subject editor of Journal of Banking, Finance and Sustainable Development. She was also guest editor (jointly with T. Sarker, USQ, Australia) of special issue of the journal, European Journal of Development Research on the theme ‘Financing of Sustainable Development Goals and Covid 19’. Since 2021 she is also invited panel member for judging Global Undergraduate Awards (Economics category).