Dr. Pradeep Kumar Mehta is Associate Professor in Department ofEconomics at the SGND Khalsa College, University of Delhi. In addition, hehas also been a visiting faculty to many management institutes for coursesin economics and international business, from time to time. He has to hiscredit around 40 Years of teaching experience.He has co-authored two research books entitled Exploring Indo-ASEANEconomic Partnership in Globalising World (Bookwell, 2002) and Meetingthe Challenges of the European Union: Prospects for Indian Exports (SagePublications, 1997). He has also published many research papers, someunder co-authorship, in reputed Indian and foreign journals which includesEconomic and Political weekly, Foreign Trade Review, Asia-PacificDevelopment Journal, (Bangkok) and Singapore Economic Review(Singapore). He has also published articles in reputed financial dailies such asEconomic Times, Business Line and Financial Express. He has participatedand presented papers in a large number of Conferences and Seminars.He has been a short term visiting fellow at Institute of Asian Studies,Chulalongkorn University (Bangkok), as also a consultant to NationalCommission on Urbanization, Ministry of Urban Development, Governmentof India.