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Solano Jose Savio Da SilvaAddress: Qtr. No. E-36,Phone: +91-832-2580292 (O)BITS-PILANI,K. K. Birla Goa Campus, e-mail: solano@bits-goa.ac.inNH-17B,Zuarinagar, Goa.India 403 726Date of Birth: 22 nd March 1979Age: 34 yearsNationality: IndianMarital Status: MarriedLanguages: Fluent in English, fair in Konkani, Hindi and Portuguese and some exposure inFrench.Current workLecturer in the Department of Humanities & Management, Birla Institute of Technology &Science-Pilani, K K Birla Goa Campus.Handling two courses: Modern Political Concepts (Instructor in Charge) and DevelopmentEconomics (Instructor).AcademicsM.Phil in Development StudiesUniversity Percentage YearUniversity of Oxford, UK 67% 2008The degree which is offered from the Oxford Department of International Development,University of Oxford (www.qeh.ox.ac.uk) encouraged the study of development and relatedissues from an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary perspective.The two-year course that I completed had both a taught and research component. Taughtcourses included: Politics and History of development, Social Anthropology, A Core Coursein Development Studies, Research Methods, and two electives: Economic Development andIndian Political Economy. I also did a non-credit course in the Philosophy of Social Science.As part of the degree I also completed a thesis, under the supervision of Dr. NandiniGooptu, on the, post-liberalisation, urban transformation of the city of Mumbai titledMaking Mumbai a ‘World Class’ City.1/5

Master of Arts in International Studies (M.A.)University Percentage YearGoa University 71.31% 2004M.A. courses included: Political Theory, International Relations, Research Methodology,International Law, International Economics, International Political Economy, Statistics andEconometrics among others.As part of the course I also completed a dissertation on Human Security and ContemporaryDebates on Security, which sought to locate the idea of Human Security vis-à-vis traditional andnon-traditional conceptualisations of security.Bachelor of Arts in Economics (B.A.)University Percentage YearGoa University 72.85% 2001Was educated at Dhempe College of Arts and Science and majored in Economics. Othercourses included: Psychology, Philosophy, Mass Communication and English.Completed a final year dissertation on The Economic Viability of Non-Conventional EnergyResources which sought to compare the cost differentials in using conventional and nonconventionalenergy sources over a sustained period of time. It tried to highlight the costsavings and ancillary benefits of using non-conventional energy sources.High School and SchoolBoard Percentage Year12 th StandardGoa Board 52.82%(Science) 199710 th StandardGoa Board 64.42% 1995Work Experience• Academic Counsellor/Lecturer in Social Sciences: to undergraduates studying atPradeepa: Pallottine Institute of Philosophy & Religion which is a study centre of theNational Open University (IGNOU).• Website www.goafiles.com (with deSouza, Sylvester), 15 th November 2011: an onlineresource of villages maps of Goa intended to be used to assess and correct the GoaRegional Plan 2021.• Teaching Assistant, from July – Dec 2010: to Asst. Prof. Alito Siqueira, Dept ofSociology, Goa University in designing and delivering a course on Globalisation &Development.• Critic at student’s final exams and delivery of lecture on SEZs, 23 rd – 31 st May2011: Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm, Sweden.2/5

• The Politics of India’s SEZs, Jan 2010 – Feb 2011: A research project headed byProf. Rob Jenkins, City University New York and funded by the Ford Foundation.The project sought to understand the implementation of the SEZ Policy acrossvarious Indian states. I contributed to the study by undertaking a case study of SEZsin the state of Goa. For further details see: www.indiasezpolitics.org• Consultancy to the Inter Parliamentary Union (IPU), May – June 2009:Contributed to a study carried out by the IPU, Geneva which sought to map outlegal provisions through which political parties are able to revoke the parliamentarymandate enjoyed by elected MPs. Produced a report for this study which compiledsuch constitutional and other legal provisions found in the legal frameworks of 29countries from the Asia-Pacific region.• Women Aloud: Videoblogging for Empowerment (WAVE), Oct 2009 – Feb2010: assisted in the implementation of a project which setup a network of youngwomen journalists, one from every Indian state, who underwent training incommunity media; to create short videos about local issues and to upload them on awebsite (videoblog) in order to reach a wide and global audience. See:www.waveindia.org• Center for the Study of Developing Studies (CSDS), May 2004 – Aug 2005:Worked as a Research Assistant at Lokniti, CSDS on a cross-country project titledState of Democracy in South Asia which sought to map the experience of democracy infive South Asian countries: Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Inparticular I oversaw one component of the project called, Dialogues; which was anexercise that recognised and recovered conceptions and experiences of democracyfrom a range of democracy ‘activists’. The Dialogues sought to complement theother components of the project: a cross-national Survey, Case Studies andQualitative Assessment of democratic institutions. For further details of the studysee: www.democracy-asia.orgApart from the above responsibility I also designed the website for Lokniti, CSDSwww.lokniti.org and was in charge of updating it. I also overlooked the organizationof a few seminars.• National Election Survey 2004, April – May 2004:State supervisor of the Goa chapter of a nationwide post-poll survey titled NationalElection Survey 2004 (NES 2004) conducted by the CSDS on the 14 th IndianParliamentary Elections in May, 2004.• Measuring, Monitoring and Managing Sustainability: the Coastal Dimension,November 2002Assisted in the capacity of a field-investigator in a survey conducted by Tata EnergyResearch Institute (TERI). The survey aimed at studying perceptions andrequirements of tourists when visiting a tourist destination (Goa). The informationwas to be used in formulating the state’s tourism policy.• General Electric (Capital), May 2001 – Jun 2002:Responsibilities included providing customer service to credit card clients located inthe United States. Besides receiving 5 certificates for excellence and being rated TopQuality Performer I assisted in projects relating to digitization of processes,contextual training and decreasing process defects.3/5

Publications and Honours• (forthcoming) ‘Amka Naka SEZs: Reversing the SEZ Policy in Goa’ in Jenkins, R.,Kennedy, L & Mukhopadyay, P. (eds) The Politics of India’s SEZs. New Delhi OxfordUniversity Press.• With Rodrigues, Maria do Ceau, (2009) Goa: A Fractured Mandate. In Yadav, Y., Suri,K.C. & Shastri, S. (eds) Electoral Politics in Indian States: Lok Sabha Elections in 2004 andBeyond. New Delhi, Oxford University Press.• Da Silva, S. (2009), A Compilation of Constitutional and other Legal Provisions that EnablePolitical Parties to Revoke the Parliamentary Mandate: A study of Twenty-Nine Countries from theAsia-Pacific Region, Report Submitted to the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), Geneva.• With deSouza, Peter R, Edzia Carvalho and Sushma Pawar (2006), Dynamics of aWorking Democracy: Representative Politics in a Goa Constituency’ Economic andPolitical Weekly, 41(16), pp. 1547-1583• With deSouza, Peter R. (2005), Dialogues – The Monarchy and Democracy in Nepal,Seminar, 548 (April), pp. 54-58.• With Rodrigues, Maria do Ceau, Prabhat Kumar and William Joe (2004), GoaFractured Mandate, Economic and Political Weekly, 39(51), pp.5532-5535.• Popular articles written in the local press can be accessed from www.solanodasilva.info (Member of Research Team) SDSA Team 2007, State of Democracy in South Asia: AReport, Oxford University Press, New Delhi.o May 2005, Awarded the Felix Scholarship to pursue an M.Phil. in DevelopmentStudies at the University of Oxford, UK.o November 2004: Selected by the Regional Centre for Strategic Studies (RCSS),Colombo to participate in the winter workshop on ‘Sources of conflict in South Asia:Terrorism, Human security issues, Gender security and migration held inKathmandu, Nepal.o June 2001: Certificate of merit for securing the highest percentage of marks at theThird Year Bachelors of Arts (B.A.) examination.o June 2001: Certificate for securing the highest marks in Economics at the Third YearBachelors of Arts (B.A.) examination in the academic year 2000 - 2001.Research Interests• Development theory; understanding social transformation.• Issues of urban development especially urban marginality• India’s Political Economy• Economy and Politics of Goa• Philosophy of Social Science4/5

Other Qualificationso Endnote: Creating bibliographical databases, 2006o Basic Course in Web Designing, 2004o Certificate in French, 2003o Certificate in Computers from NIIT, 1999Software packages studied: Unix, Sybase, HTML, Networking, Windows andMicrosoft Office.Other Activities/Interestso Goa Bachao Abiyan (GBA)Former-core member of the GBA; worked extensively during the opposition to the GoaRegional Plan 2011 and during the period immediate to the scrapping of the Plan.o Pilerne Citizens Forum (PCF)A founding member of the Forum, which perseveres to take up issues of social welfare inthe villages of Pilerne and Marra, Goa.o The ArtsMember of “The Mustard Seed Art Company”, an English theatre group located in Goa..Participated in a play at the International Peace Festival “Oceans of Joy”, held in Bangalore,India in December 2000. Represented Goa University at the “Katha International Story festival”in New Delhi in 2004.o SportsPlay football, cricket, badminton and table tennis. Mostly play for leisure but have alsoplayed competitive soccer, cricket and table tennis at the collegiate level.Represented St. Antony’s college, Oxford in cricket and table-tennis.o OthersI enjoy being in the outdoors, especially, walking, exploring and fishing.Active in the Parish Youth of Holy Family Church, Alto Porvorim.ReferencesProf. Peter Ronald de SouzaDirector,Indian Institute of Advanced Study,Rastrapati Niwas, Shimla – 171 005IndiaPhone No.: (0177) 2831390Email: peter@csds.inProf. Barbara Harriss-WhiteDirector, Contemporary S. Asia StudiesProgramme,c/o Queen Elizabeth House,3, Mansfield Road,Oxford OX1 3TB, UKPhone Nos.: +44 (1865) 281823 (O)281201 (F) 558862 (R)Email: barbara.harrisswhite@qeh.ox.ac.ukMr. Alito SiqueiraAssociate Professor,Department of Sociology,Goa University.Phone Nos: (0832) 6519308 (O) 2456073(R)Email: alito.siqueira@gmail.com5/5