- Prof. Ashima Goyal, Emeritus Professor, IGIDR was invited to deliver a convocation address as Chief Guest at Sarla Anil Modi School of Economics of SVKM’s Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies, Mumbai on August 23, 2021
- Prof. S. Mahendra Dev, Director, IGIDR, has been nominated as a member of Governing Council of the Association of Indian Universities (AIU),New Delhi.
- Prof. Ashima Goyal, Emeritus Professor, IGIDR was invited to deliver the keynote address at the G20 Framework Working Group virtual meeting on Macroeconomic policy settings through recovery organized by The Italian Secretariat of G20 on April 29th, 2021
- Prof. Ashima Goyal, Emeritus Professor, IGIDR, has been appointed as an External Member on the search-cum-selection committee to find the Chairperson of the National Bank for Financing Infrastructure and Development.
- Best paper award for a paper 'Covid19 and Corporate India" by Aakriti Mathur and Rajeswari Sengupta, SEBI-NISM Research Conference, Feb 25-26, 2021.
- Prof. S. Mahendra Dev, Director, IGIDR, has been nominated as a Co-opted Member of FICCI.
- Dr. Subrata Sarkar, Professor, IGIDR has been appointed as a member of the Academic Advisory Council, College of Supervisors, Reserve Bank of India.
- Prof. Ashima Goyal, Professor, IGIDR has been nominated as a member of RBI's Monetary Policy Committee.
- Prof. S. Mahendra Dev, Director, IGIDR has been nominated as Executive Member of International Economics Association
- Dr. P.G. Babu, Professor has been appointed as Director, Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai
- Dr. Sudhakar Yedla, Professor has been appointed as Vice-Chancellor,Dravidian University, Kuppam
- Prof Rajeswari Sengupta has been appointed a member of the Standing Committee on Centralised Information Management System by the Reserve Bank of India.
- Madhuparna Ganguly - Gold Medallist M.Sc (Economics) 2018 batch.
- Prof Ashima Goyal has been appointed as an independent director on the board of Edelweiss Financial Services.
- The Old Students Association, Hindu College, New Delhi on 22 April, 2018, awarded Dr. Ashima Goyal a Distinguished Alumni Award for excellence in the field of economics..
- Dr. Ashima Goyal received the SKOCH Challenger Award for Economic Policy at the 50th SKOCH Summit held in Delhi on 21 December, 2017.
- Dr. Ashima Goyal, Professor has been appointed as a member of Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council.
- Dr. Rajeswari Sengupta, Assistant Professor has been awarded a Scholarship by the Reserve Bank of India.
- Prof. S. Mahendra Dev, Director has been appointed as Vice-Chairman of International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
- Mr. Jai Mohan Pandit, Registrar has been selected for the 2017 Fulbright Fellowship.
- IGIDR student Serene Kathiwada has published an op-ed piece in Nepal's leading newspaper.
- Nidhi Aggarwal's thesis was adjudged the ‘Best Ph.D. Thesis in Financial Economics.
