- Prof. S. Chandrasekhar, Professor, IGIDR has been nominated as a Vice-President of The Indian Econometric Society's Executive Committee for 2025-26.
- Prof. S. Mahendra Dev, former Director (Vice Chancellor) of Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR), has been appointed as the Chairman of the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister (EAC-PM).
- Dr. Disha Gupta, Assistant Professor, IGIDR has received 'PRISMA Sustainability Assessment and Policy Award 2025' for her paper “Free power, irrigation, and groundwater depletion: Impact of farm electricity policy of Punjab, India” (published in Agricultural Economics, 2023). The award was presented at the Dresden Nexus Conference on April 8, 2025.
- Mr. Deepak Kushawaha, PhD student, IGIDR has received the 'Best Paper Award' at the Young Scholars' Workshop on Contemporary Issues of Economic Development, held at Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan on March 7, 2025
- Dr. Ashima Goyal, Emeritus Professor, IGIDR delivered 1st Shri. Kandaswami Subramanian Endowment Lecture at Madras School of Economics on March 11, 2025
- Dr. Bharti Nandwani, Assistant Professor, IGIDR has been awarded Prof. M.J. Manohar Rao Young Economist Award-2024 by The Indian Econometric Society (TIES) during its 59th Annual Conference held at BHU, March 3-5, 2025.
- Prof. Ashima Goyal, Emeritus Professor, IGIDR was invited to deliver a talk at the ADBI-SAU Conference on “From Crisis to Resilience: Shaping the Future of Banking in Asia-Pacific, Organised by ADBI and SAU, on January 30-31, 2025.
- Dr. Ashima Goyal, Emeritus Professor, IGIDR, was invited to deliver a keynote address at GS Global Macro Conference, Hong Kong, held on January 15, 2025.
- Mr. Raveendra Kumar, PhD student, IGIDR has been awarded 'Surjit Singh Fellowship' for his paper presented at 65th Indian Society of Labour Economics conference held on Jan 9-11, 2025 at ISEC, Bengaluru.
- Dr. Ashima Goyal, Emeritus Professor, IGIDR, gave the Valedictory Address at the D.C.Pavate Foundation Silver Jubilee Conference, Karnatak University, Dharwad with Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, on the 4 January, 2025.
- Dr. Rajeswari Sengupta, Associate Professor, IGIDR was invited as a special presenter at the Ninth EIITF Conference series organised by the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT), Kolkata, December 12-13, 2024.
- Dr. Ashima Goyal, Emeritus Professor, IGIDR was invited to deliver a talk as distinguished speaker at the 11th Annual Rupee Money Conference 2024 held on December 7, 2024
- Mr. Deepak Kushawaha, PhD student, IGIDR has received the 'Best Paper Award' at the 1st International Conference on Sustainable Finance held at IIT Bhubaneswar, December 6-8, 2024
- Prof. Ashima Goyal, Emeritus Professor, IGIDR was invited to deliver a keynote address at the 9th Injection, Blow Moulding and PET International Business Summit – 2024 on June 26, 2024
- Prof. Ashima Goyal, Emeritus Professor, IGIDR was invited to deliver 5th Adwait Mohanty Memorial Lecture, March 14, 2024
- Prof. Ashima Goyal, Emeritus Professor, IGIDR was invited to deliver keynote address at the Indian Econometric Society (TIES) conference, Feb 22-24, 2024
- Ms. Ipsita Das, PhD student, IGIDR has received 'NSE Best Paper Award' at the 5th Annual Economics Conference', held at Ahmedabad University, Ahmedabad, Jan 5-6, 2024.
- Dr. Disha Gupta, Assistant Professor, IGIDR has received the ‘Donna Brennan International Award’ for attending the Australasian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society (AARES) Annual Conference, February 6-9, 2024
- Prof. Ashima Goyal, Emeritus Professor, IGIDR was invited to deliver keynote address at the 5th Annual Economics Conference at Ahmedabad University, Jan 5-6, 2024
- Dr. Disha Gupta, Assistant Professor, IGIDR has received the ‘Uma Lele Mentor Fellowship for Women’ from Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA), USA for undertaking collaborative research
- Mr. Deepak Kushawaha, PhD student, IGIDR, has received best paper award at 'Doctoral Colloquium and International Winter Energy Summit, 2024', held at MDI, Gurgaon, Feb 13-16, 2024.
- Prof. Ashima Goyal, Emeritus Professor, IGIDR, has been selected as one of the winners in the 20th edition of Business Today’s Most Powerful Women in Business Awards, 2023
- Prof. Ashima Goyal, Emeritus Professor, IGIDR was invited to address the business leaders at Anand Rathi Annual Flagship Conference – G200 Summit 2023, Nov 6-8, 2023
- Prof. Ashima Goyal, Emeritus Professor, IGIDR was invited as a speaker to deliver a talk at ISEC Macroeconomics Seminar Series, Oct 26, 2023
- Dr. S. Chandrasekhar, Professor, IGIDR, has been appointed as a member of the Standing Committee on Statistics (SCoS) constituted by the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI), Govt. of India.
- IGIDR has been ranked #101-120 in QS WUR Ranking By Subject (Development Studies) 2023
- Prof. Ashima Goyal, Emeritus Professor, IGIDR was invited as plenary speaker at the AIEFS 24th Biennial International Conference, 2023
- "Dr. Ashima Goyal, Emeritus Professor, IGIDR, was felicitated with the Distinguished Alumni Award for outstanding academic and professional achievements as an alumna of the Delhi School of Economics on 2nd May 2023".
- "Prof. Ashima Goyal, Emeritus Professor, IGIDR, has been selected as one of the winners in the 19th edition of Business Today’s Most Powerful Women in Business Awards, 2022"
- "Prof. Sudhakar Yedla, Professor, IGIDR, has been nominated as a member of the COURT of the Central University of Karnataka".
- Prof. Ashima Goyal, Emeritus Professor, IGIDR, has been appointed as chair of the T20, Task Force 5 - Purpose & Performance: Reassessing the Global Financial Order, as part of India's G-20 presidency. IGIDR has been designated as a host institution.
- "Prof. Sudhakar Yedla has been nominated by the Honourable President of India as a Member of Executive Council of Central University of Karnataka for a period of three years starting from 10th November 2022".
- Dr. Leena Bhattacharya, Alumni of IGIDR, has been selected as GLO Fellow for the year 2022
- Prof. Ashima Goyal, Emeritus Professor, IGIDR has been selected as a promising woman leader by Economic Times-Edge and Femina for demonstrating exemplary leadership qualities, June 24, 2022.
- Prof. Subrata Sarkar, Professor, IGIDR has been appointed as a member of the SEBI Market Data Advisory Committee
- Prof. Sudhakar Yedla has been invited to lead (Chairman) a "Consortium on Economic Analysis of Air Pollution Policy and Regulation Unit" which is one of the six verticals in "Technical Air Resource Unit for Scientific Analysis, Management and Coordination" - A national initiative by the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India
- Prof. Ashima Goyal, Emeritus Professor, IGIDR delivered keynote address at Research Symposium on Finance and Economics (RSFE – 2022) Organised by IFMR Graduate School of Business, KREA University on June 17, 2022
- Prof. Sudhakar Yedla, Professor, IGIDR has been appointed as Chairman, National Focus Group on Environmental Education for the National Curriculum Framework (NCF) Development by NCERT, Government of India as part of the implementation of NEP-2020
- Prof. S. Mahendra Dev, Director, IGIDR will be felicitated with the 'Distinguished Alumni Award' by the Delhi School of Economics at the Annual Day function on 19th April 2022 for his outstanding academic and professional achievements.
- Prof.Ashima Goyal, Emeritus Professor, IGIDR, delivered a keynote address at Research Scholars’ Day at IIT Patna (RSD 2022), 23rd March 2022
- Prof. S.Mahendra Dev, Director, IGIDR has received an Economics Award initiated by the Indian Economic Forum of the Skoch Group for his contributions to the Development Economics.
- Prof. S. Mahendra Dev, Director, IGIDR, has been appointed as Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Institute for Development Studies, Andhra Pradesh.
- Prof. S. Mahendra Dev, Director, IGIDR, has been nominated as a President of the Indian Society of Agricultural Marketing.
- Prof. Ashima Goyal, Emeritus Professor, IGIDR, is delivering a keynote address at 15th International Conference of Business and Finance (ICBF 2022), 27th January 2022.
- Dr. Anjaneya Reddy, Assistant Librarian, IGIDR has been awarded with NISO Scholarship Plus for the year 2022
- Prof. Ashima Goyal, Emeritus Professor, IGIDR, has been selected as one of the winners in the 18th edition of Business Today’s Most Powerful Women in Business Awards, 2021
- Dr. Srijit Mishra, Professor, IGIDR as a Co-investigator of TIGR2ESS project and the entire team of the project received an award of 'University of Cambridge Vice Chancellor's Collaboration Award 2021' for research impact and engagement.
- Dr. Ashima Goyal, Emeritus Professor, IGIDR, and member of the RBI’s monetary policy committee joins board of Policy 4.0
- 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.
