Manisha Tripathy Pandey is a sociologist and Honorary Director of Centre for North East Studies and Policy Research (CNESPR) at Jamia Millia Islamia, a Central university in Delhi. A Professor and former Head at the Department of Sociology, JMI, she has over twenty-five years of experience in teaching at undergraduate and post graduate levels. Her research and scholarship have examined the issues of development, globalization, ethnicity, middle class, diaspora, capitalism, markets, digitalization, urban spaces, economic policy, and violence. Having obtained a doctorate degree in Sociology from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, she has 25 years of teaching and research experience. During her two decades long academic career at various positions, she has delivered more than 75 Invited Lectures as Resource Person in national and international forums, which include York University, Canada, USA, and Canberra, Australia and Seoul, Korea. She is a member of Institutional Ethics Committee, JNU and is serving NCW, NTA, NIEPA, JNU, DU, IGNOU, Amity University and Ambedkar University as subject expert. She is the author of the book, Globalization and The Indian Urban Middle Class, and has published several research papers and chapters in reputed journals and edited volumes. She is a member of various national and international professional bodies like International Sociological Association, Indian Sociological Society and Canada Sociological Association. She has been visiting faculty at School of Development Studies, TISS, Mumbai; Department of Development Communication and Extension, Lady Irwin College, University of Delhi; and Regional Training Institute, Government of India, Nagpur. Her current research interests lie in the following areas: markets and economic life, development studies, globalization studies, cultural studies, and social theory. She is currently working on an ongoing ICSSR-funded major research project, “State, Market and Digitalization: A Study of Digital Democracy and Exclusion in India”.