- 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.