Gilles Verniers is currently a Senior Fellow at the Center for Policy Research, New Delhi, and Karl Loewenstein Fellow & Visiting Professor in Political Science at Amherst College. Previously, he was an assistant professor of political science and co-director of the Trivedi Center for Political Data, which he founded, at Ashoka University. He obtained his doctorate in political science from Sciences Po Paris in 2016 and followed training in political science, international relations and economic and social ethics at the universities of Saint-Louis, Brussels and the Catholic University of Louvain, in Belgium. He is an associate researcher at the Center for Human Sciences, New Delhi.

Professor Verniers' research focuses on the prosopography of the Indian political class, issues of political representation, particularly of women, and the intersections between electoral politics, the state and local governance in India.

Lecture given: What to expect from the general elections in India? 

Wednesday March 20, 2024

Episode of Sans escale podcast: India, democracy with feet of clay