Former MIDS Director P.G. Babu no more

P.G. Babu, former Director, Madras Institute of Development Studies.

P.G. Babu, former Director, Madras Institute of Development Studies, passed away in Dindigul, his hometown, on Thursday. He was 65 and is survived by his mother, a brother, and a sister.

Prof. Babu was serving as the Vice-Chancellor of Vidyashilp University, Bengaluru, since 2023. During his tenure as the Director of MIDS between 2019 and 2022, he brought out a series of books in both Tamil and English, most notably on the economic policy during the pandemic.

For over three decades, he had served at the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai, where he was also the Dean of Graduate Studies and coordinated the Law and Economics programmes.

His research focussed on Microeconomic theory and Game theory with applications across Environmental and Natural Resource Economics, Law and Economics, and Politics-Philosophy and Economics. His research contributions include work on the decision-making framework for climate change as part of the IPCC working group, which earned him a citation from the Prime Minister of India.