Dr. Lakhwinder Singh is currently Professor of Economics at Thapar School of Liberal Arts and Sciences (TSLAS), Patiala and Visiting Professor, Institute for Human Development (IHD), New Delhi. He has been the President of the 65th Indian Society of Labour Economics Conference. Prior to this, Dr. Singh has been Professor and Head, Department of Economics, Punjabi University, Patiala, India where he has founded Centre for Development Economics and Innovation Studies (CDEIS). He has also served as a senior economist at the National Institute for Public Finance and Policy, New Delhi. Dr. Singh has been awarded prestigious scholarships such as Ford Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Economics and Asia Fellow of International Institute for Education (IIE), New York. He has held several visiting positions including Yale University, USA and Seoul National University, South Korea. Dr. Singh has teaching experience of more than 32 years and has successfully supervised 21 Ph.Ds. Professor Singh is Coordinator of Indialics-a Chapter of Globelics in India. He is founding editor of Millennial Asia-An International Journal of Asian Studies since 2009 which is published by SAGE and indexed in SCOPUS and Clarivate Analytics (ESCI). He has contributed ten books and more than a hundred articles in various reputed journals and leading national newspapers. He has authored Agrarian Distress and Farmer Suicides in North India published by Routledge 2020 (second edition). His recently edited book is Reimagining Innovation Systems in the Covid and Post-Covid World. His specialization is Development Economics, Innovation Systems, Regional Economics, Area Studies, and Punjab Economy.