Mansi Kedia is Senior Fellow at the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations. She has over 9 years of experience in economic policy. Her areas of research include telecommunication policy, trade and industrial policy. She has published papers/ reports on telecom and Internet regulations, impact of information technology and Industrial policy in India. Her ongoing research includes issues related to governance of the Internet, competition issues in India’s mobile handset industry, Internet shutdowns and the future of work in India. She was appointed as a member of the Task Force rewriting the Direct Tax Code for India (2017). She also has a background in management consulting and financial services with close to four years of experience in the private sector. She received her B.Sc. in Economics from St. Xavier’s, Kolkata and an MBA from the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad. Her PhD is from the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, New Delhi.