Pallavi Singh

Current Project:

From Bazaar to Corporations: Community in Indian Joint Stock Firms, 1920s-1970s

*Community, Transfer of Economic Power, Corporate Ownership, Institutions

*Development of Banking over the long run twentieth century India

*Social Networks in Modern India 

Economic history, business history and social science history.

Entrepreneurship, Corporate Governance, Corporate Ownership, Institutions, Culture, Ownership and Management of Firms, Social Relatioships in credit and finance, Institutional Voids, Social Networks in twentieth century.

My work comes together in my research and literary writing. I have written, researched and reported extensively on businss and political economy in South Asia prior to taking up research in economic history.

Academic activites/service:

• Presenter, Business History Conference, Providence, M.A., U.S. - March 2024

• Presenter, doctoral colloquium, Business History Conference, Detroit, U.S. - March 2023

• DfE scholar 2021-2024
• Member, Gender Equality Committee, Queen's Business School 
• Public Outreach Committee, Economic History Society, U.K.
• Member, Business History Conference, U.S.
• Moderator, Winter School, Queen's University Belfast - January 2022
• LSE-India scholar 2013-2014
• Mentor, LSE Alumni Network (2018-present)

Public engagements/Literary honours:

• Invited Author, Belfast Book Festival, Northern Ireland - June, 2024
• Book added to National Library of Ireland collections
• Guest Author, Northern Soul, Irish Writers Centre - Feb, 2024
• Invited Speaker, Rostrevor Literary Festival, Northern Ireland - Nov., 2023
• Professional Member, Irish Writers Centre
• Listed artist, Breaking Ground Ireland, 2022

Opinion:

Moneycontrol

Books:

'Lola in Belfast'  (2024)
'Orisons in the Dark' (2023)

Pallavi built, led and managed teams in audience engagement, marketing and communications at global multinational corporations such as News Corp, and helped shape industry-leading digital products across industries ranging from news media, art-tech, and digital businesses. Before her stint in the corporate world, she worked as a journalist at Mint, The Indian Express and Hindustan Times in New Delhi, and Bombay. She continues to write for leading publications in India and the U.K.

She was an LSE India scholar at the London School of Economics and Political Science and studied for an MSc in Economic History, and another postgraduate degree in Journalism at Asian College of Journalism. She studied English Literature with Economics, Political Science and History for her undergraduate degree.