Gautam Kumar Das is a Consultant at NCAER. His research interests are in the field of food and nutritional insecurity, agriculture & rural development, poverty and economic & social inequality, and governance. He received his PhD in Economics from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He also received ICSSR doctoral fellowship during 2015-16. At NCAER he has been working on the projects of Rashtriya Gram Swaraj Abhiyaan and Own Sources of Revenue of the Panchayat.