Chinmay Tumbe is an associate professor in the field of economics at the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA), with a passion in areas of migration, cities, firms, and history. He has studied at the London School of Economics and Political Science, the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, Ruia College in Mumbai, and Rishi Valley School in Madanapalle. He has also served as a faculty member at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Hyderabad. Chinmay was a 2013 Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence, and the 2018 Alfred D. Chandler Jr. International Visiting Scholar in Business History at Harvard Business School in Boston.

Chinmay has authored two books: “India Moving: A History of Migration” (2018) and “The Age of Pandemics, 1817-1920: How they Shaped India and the World” (2020). In addition to his writing, he has actively participated in various national and international committees. He served as a member of the Lancet Covid-19 India Taskforce from 2020 to 2022 and was a part of the Working Group on Migration of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation from 2016 to 2017. His research has been widely published in leading journals and leading newspapers, and he has also contributed to the establishment of the IIMA Archives.

His research as an AsiaGlobal Fellow will look into “Big Business in Asia” and analyse the patterns of sectoral-distributions and business-state relations that enabled the emergence of those large firms.