Himanshu Sekhar Rout, PhD is working in the Department of A&A Economics, and associated with the RUSA Centre of Excellence in Public Policy and Governance, Utkal University, India. He has 20 years of teaching and research experience, eight books and more than 50 research papers published in national and international journals to his credit. Dr. Rout is the Editor-in-Chief of Manthan: Journal of Commerce and Management. His teaching domain is Health Economics, the Economics of Education, Indian Economic Planning and Development, and Research Methodology. His main areas of research are the Economics of the Social Sector (Health, Education, and Gender) and IPR (GIs).