Dr. Anshu Srivastava is currently a Professor in the Department of Educational Administration, NIEPA New Delhi. She graduated from Lady Shri Ram College, Delhi and went on to pursue her MA, MPhil and PhD from University of Delhi. Prof Srivastava has taught in Department of Political Science, Indraprastha College for Women, University of Delhi for more than a decade, previously. Within the broad area of interest in politics of development, her key areas of research have been gender and class politics. She has published several research papers and popular articles. Her monograph 'Liberalised India, Politicised Middle Class and Software Professionals' has been published by Routledge in 2022.
At NIEPA, she has pitched her disciplinary background to some of the policy issues in Indian Higher Education such as mainstreaming gender. She has organised the National Workshops on Gender Sensitization Cells and Internal Complaint Committees in Universities in India. She has been a member of the GATI (Gender advancement in technology institutes) of the Government of India's Department of Science and Technology in the year 2022-2023. She was also the sole evaluator of UGC Scheme on Women Studies in HEIs in 2023-2024.
Another critical area of her academic engagement is the NEP 2020 vertical on Indian Knowledge System. Prof Srivastava through her years of teaching of Indian Political Thought at University of Delhi aims to generate ideas and contribute to integration of Indian Knowledge System to the curriculum of Higher Education.