Sugato Hazra

Sugato Hazra is a public policy analyst with extensive experience in political campaigns and has worked with politicians from West Bengal to study the nature of political development in West Bengal during the last thirty years. He has authored Influencing India - Lobbying in the World’s Largest Democracy (2011), perhaps the only book on the subject, and co-authored Winning the Mandate the Indian Experience (2016) on the 2014 Indian general election.

Writing on political economy since his college days, he has been secretary, economic affairs in the industry chamber FICCI and has contributed to various publications of the chamber including jointly putting together the history of FICCI during its 75th anniversary year.