ICG Team

Pushkar is Director, International Centre Goa (ICG), since December 2016. He has lived for long periods in Bhagalpur (where he grew up), New Delhi, Montréal and Goa. A PhD in political science (McGill University), he studied history at St Stephen’s College, Delhi; and politics and international relations at the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU).

His PhD dissertation was on Chilean Christian Democracy and health sector reforms. Pushkar has taught at universities in India and Canada, including BITS Pilani-Goa (2013-2016); McGill University (2006-2011); Concordia University (2003-2006); and Goa University (1992-1996).

Pushkar has published journal articles and book chapters on Chilean politics and health sector reforms and on democracy, public goods provision and health in India; and India’s higher education. He is the co-author (with Madhvi Gupta) of Democracy, Civil Society, and Health in India (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015). Since 2012, he has written more than 100 op-eds and essays on India’s higher education for Asian Scientist, braingainmag.com, Hindustan Times, Indian Express, Rajasthan Patrika (Hindi), Times Higher Education, The Wire and others.

His writings and views on India’s higher education have been cited in several newspapers, magazines and journals, including Times Higher Education, The Economist, Science, Nature Index and University World News. In January 2015, an article in Forbes India listed him as one of India’s 24 thinkers “who best explain a rapidly-changing India to the world (and the world to India)” for his writings on higher education.

Pushkar is Member of the General Body, Sangath; Academic Council, Chowgule College of Arts & Science (Goa); Academic Council, JKLU (Jaipur); and Board of Governors, Prism School of Business and Entrepreneurship (Bhilai).