Himanshu Jha is an Associate Professor at the School of Liberal Studies and Humanities, UPES, India. Previously, Prof. Jha taught at the Department of Political Science at the South Asia Institute (SAI), Heidelberg University (HU), Germany, and at the National University of Singapore (NUS). He holds a Ph.D. from the National University of Singapore, where he held the prestigious President’s Graduate Fellowship. He has an M.Phil in Public Policy from the Australian National University, an M.A. in Political Science from Jawaharlal Nehru University, and a Bachelor’s degree in History (Hons.) from the University of Delhi.
With his multidisciplinary background, Prof. Jha has developed a keen scholarly interest in politics, public policy, and governance. His research primarily focuses on institutional and policy change, historical institutionalism, public policy, governance and development, the politics of accountability, state capacity, and the politics of climate change. With over 20 years of academic and action-based research, Prof. Jha’s empirical findings and theoretical frameworks are rooted in the intersection of theory and practice. He strongly advocates field-based research and remains attuned to both the area and the discipline.
He is the co-editor of Globalization and Governance in India (Routledge, 2023), the author of Capturing Institutional Change: The Case of the Right to Information Act in India (Oxford University Press, 2020), and Public Policy and Governance in India (Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming). In addition to several book chapters, book reviews, and contributions to popular media, Prof. Jha has published in leading academic journals. As a co-editor of Governance Review, he aims to foster policy debates on enduring, vexing governance challenges—positioning the journal at a critical juncture to advance academic discourse while engaging broader public discussions about pressing contemporary issues.
