Sangeeta Bansal is a Professor of Economics at the Centre for International Trade and Development, Jawaharlal Nehru University since 2010. She visited the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California, Berkeley in 2013-2014 and again in 2015. She has served as the Chairperson of the Centre for International Trade and Development from 2008-2010, and has been an associate professor at the University since 2004.

She received her Masters in Economics from the Delhi School of Economics and her PhD in Economics from the Indian Statistical Institute.

Her research interests are in environmental and agricultural policy, development economics, economics of technological change, information economics and micro-economic theory.

She is an Associate Editor of the journal Resource and Energy Economics, has been Editorial Board member of the journal Environmental and Development Economics, recipient of the 2008 ICSSR-NWO research grant, 2004 European Summer School Grant, 2003 Grant for participating in the Environmental Economics and Policy Making at Goteborg University, Sweden. She has visited the economics department at the University of California, Berkeley, USA, Tilburg University, Netherlands, Goteborg University, Sweden, and the Indian Statistical Institute, India.

Sangeeta was the recipient of Fulbright-Nehru Senior Research Fellowship 2013-14 to visit University of California, Berkeley.

Sangeeta has provided consultancy to International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington D. C., USA, Vi UNCTAD, Geneva, and Ministry of Environment and Forests, India, SANDEE on several research projects.