Anirudh Burman is the Program Head for Policy Research, Knowledge, and Engagement at WRI India. He has worked in different research and policy engagement capacities in leading think tanks in India. He has spent most of his career exploring and understanding critical challenges in India’s development and economic growth, with a more recent focus on urban development and land markets.

Before joining WRI, Anirudh was an associate research director and fellow at Carnegie India. He worked on issues related to public institutions, the administrative and regulatory state, and state capacity issues in domains such as land, urban development and governance, and technology. His principal areas of focus were urbanization, property rights and land markets, particularly the regulatory framework affecting land-use in cities, land titles, and land-use efficiency amidst urban transitions. Anirudh has also served on GOI task forces on urban development, and data governance.

Prior to joining Carnegie India, Anirudh worked with the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy. At NIPFP, he worked on research related to land titling reforms in India, state capacity issues in land records maintenance, and financial and regulatory reform.

Anirudh has published papers, book chapters, and essays on India’s land markets and the political economy of land market reforms, market-oriented approaches to improve land titles, and reforms in agricultural marketing. He has also published papers on regulatory governance in India, and anchored research strategies to produce peer-reviewed knowledge products on urban governance, land markets, and regulatory governance.

Anirudh has a master’s degree in law from Harvard Law School, and completed his bachelor’s from the West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences.