Sanjay Ruparelia

Sanjay Ruparelia is an Associate Professor of Politics at Toronto Metropolitan University, where he holds the Jarislowsky Democracy Chair, and a Senior Fellow of the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada.

Sanjay serves as a co-chair of Participedia, an international network that studies democratic innovations, and on the editorial boards of the Oxford Encyclopedia of Asian Politics, Indian Politics and Policy and Pacific Affairs. He co-hosts On the Frontlines of Democracy, a monthly podcast and lecture series, and regularly contributes to the media in North America and Asia. His books include Divided We Govern: coalition politics in modern India; The Indian Ideology (editor), and Understanding India’s New Political Economy (co-editor).

Sanjay previously served as a consultant to the United Nations Development Programme (NYC), United Nations Research Institute on Social Development (Geneva) and the Asia Foundation (Kabul), and taught at the New School for Social Research and Columbia University. His research has been supported by the Commonwealth Foundation, American Council of Learned Societies, and Social Science and Humanities Research Council as well as Cambridge, Johns Hopkins, Notre Dame, Princeton, Stellenbosch and Yale. Sanjay earned a B.A. in Political Science from McGill, and a M.Phil in Sociology and Politics of Development and Ph.D. in Politics from Cambridge.