Steering Committee
The Lakshmi Mittal South Asia Institute’s Steering Committee provides guidance and advisement to SAI, and represents schools from across the university.
Steering Committee Cabinet

Homi Bhabha
Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities, Department of English, FAS; Director of the Humanities Center at Harvard University
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Jacqueline Bhabha
Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health
Jeremiah Smith, Jr. Lecturer in Law, Harvard Law School
Adjunct Lecturer, Harvard Kennedy School
ProfileJeremiah Smith, Jr. Lecturer in Law, Harvard Law School
Adjunct Lecturer, Harvard Kennedy School

Martha Chen
Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
Affiliated Professor, Harvard Graduate School of Design
ProfileAffiliated Professor, Harvard Graduate School of Design

Sheila Jasanoff
Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies, Harvard Kennedy School
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Asim Khwaja
Sumitomo-FASID Professor of International Finance and Development, HKS

Jinah Kim
George P. Bickford Professor of Indian and South Asian Art, Harvard University

Jennifer Leaning
François-Xavier Bagnoud Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights, HSPH
Senior Fellow, Harvard FXB Center for Health and Human Rights
Senior Fellow, Harvard FXB Center for Health and Human Rights

Rahul Mehrotra
Chair of the Department of Urban Planning and Design
John T. Dunlop Professor in Housing and Urbanization
ProfileJohn T. Dunlop Professor in Housing and Urbanization

Venkatesh Murthy
Raymond Leo Erikson Life Sciences Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology
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Vikram Patel
The Pershing Square Professor of Global Health, Harvard Medical School
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Kristen A. Stilt
Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
Director, Program on Law and Society in the Muslim World
Faculty Director, Animal Law and Policy Program
ProfileDirector, Program on Law and Society in the Muslim World
Faculty Director, Animal Law and Policy Program

Conor Walsh
Paul A. Maeder Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Associate Faculty Member, Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering
ProfileAssociate Faculty Member, Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering
Expanded Steering Committee

Ali Asani
Professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
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Satchit Balsari
Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Fellow, FXB Center for Health & Human Rights, Harvard University
ProfileFellow, FXB Center for Health & Human Rights, Harvard University

Homi Bhabha
Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities, Department of English, FAS; Director of the Humanities Center at Harvard University
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Jacqueline Bhabha
Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health
Jeremiah Smith, Jr. Lecturer in Law, Harvard Law School
Adjunct Lecturer, Harvard Kennedy School
ProfileJeremiah Smith, Jr. Lecturer in Law, Harvard Law School
Adjunct Lecturer, Harvard Kennedy School

David Bloom
Chair, Department of Global Health and Population; Clarence James Gamble Professor of Economics and Demography, HSPH

Martha Chen
Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
Affiliated Professor, Harvard Graduate School of Design
ProfileAffiliated Professor, Harvard Graduate School of Design

Emmerich Davies
Assistant Professor of Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education
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Diana Eck
Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies, FAS; Member of the Faculty of Divinity, HDS

Sheila Jasanoff
Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies, Harvard Kennedy School
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Jerold Kayden
Frank Backus Williams Professor of Urban Planning and Design
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Asim Khwaja
Sumitomo-FASID Professor of International Finance and Development, HKS

Jinah Kim
George P. Bickford Professor of Indian and South Asian Art, Harvard University

Karim Lakhani
Charles Edward Wilson Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
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Jennifer Leaning
François-Xavier Bagnoud Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights, HSPH
Senior Fellow, Harvard FXB Center for Health and Human Rights
Senior Fellow, Harvard FXB Center for Health and Human Rights

Rahul Mehrotra
Chair of the Department of Urban Planning and Design
John T. Dunlop Professor in Housing and Urbanization
ProfileJohn T. Dunlop Professor in Housing and Urbanization

Durba Mitra
Carol K. Pforzheimer Assistant Professor, Radcliffe Institute
Assistant Professor of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Harvard University
ProfileAssistant Professor of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Harvard University

Venkatesh Murthy
Raymond Leo Erikson Life Sciences Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology
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Jukka-Pekka Onnela
Assistant Professor of Biostatistics at Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health
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Vikram Patel
The Pershing Square Professor of Global Health, Harvard Medical School
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Parimal G. Patil
Professor of Religion and Indian Philosophy, Committee on the Study of Religion, FAS, Chair of the Department of South Asian Studies
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Fernando Reimers
Ford Foundation Professor of International Education, Director, International Education Policy Program, Harvard Graduate School of Education
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Ajay Singh
Senior Associate Dean for Postgraduate Medical Education, Harvard Medical School
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Doris Sommer
Ira Jewell Williams, Jr., Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and in African and African American Studies
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Pawan Sinha
Professor of Vision and Computational Neuroscience, Brain & Cognitive Sciences, MIT
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Kristen A. Stilt
Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
Director, Program on Law and Society in the Muslim World
Faculty Director, Animal Law and Policy Program
ProfileDirector, Program on Law and Society in the Muslim World
Faculty Director, Animal Law and Policy Program

Ajantha Subramanian
Professor of Anthropology and South Asian Studies at Harvard University
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SV “Subu” Subramanian
Professor of Population Health and Geography, Harvard School of Public Health
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Milind Tambe
Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Center for Research in Computation and Society (CRCS), Harvard University
Director of AI for Social Good, Google Research India
ProfileDirector of AI for Social Good, Google Research India

Ashutosh Varshney
Sol Goldman Professor of International Studies and the Social Sciences and Professor of Political Science, Brown University
Director, Center for Contemporary South Asia, Brown University
ProfileDirector, Center for Contemporary South Asia, Brown University

Conor Walsh
Paul A. Maeder Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Associate Faculty Member, Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering
ProfileAssociate Faculty Member, Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering

Muhammad H. Zaman
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor of Biomedical Engineering and International Health, Boston University
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