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Dr. Ranade has a long experience in economic development, project analysis and management, econometrics and planning, and mathematics. He did Master of Statistics (in Econometrics and Planning in 1969) from the Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta, India; Ph.D. from Cornell University in international agricultural development (in 1977); and Master of Arts in Teaching from Johns Hopkins University (in 2005). He has published numerous articles on various topics in international development, mathematical economics and vertically integrated organizations. During his professorship at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad he was involved in teaching courses and doing consultancy in managerial economics, marketing organizations, cooperative organizations and international finance (World Bank). During his long tenure at the World Bank Dr. Ranade worked on several countries in Sub Saharan Africa, Transition Economies of the Former Soviet Union, Middle East, Nepal, Vietnam and the Philippines. In the World Bank he was involved in preparing, appraising and supervising numerous Bank financed projects, in preparing sector reports and in organizing training programs for trainers and policy makers. In spite of such varied interests Dr. Ranade has maintained his passion to teach high school students and presently he teaches Pre-Calculus, AP Calculus and AP Economics at the Wakefield School located in the The Plains, Va. Simultaneous to all of these activities he has been working on a model of economic growth for developing countries for the past three decades and the related paper with Prof. John Mellor was accepted for publication in the Pakistan Development Review in the Summer of 2007. He says “teaching at VIU has been refreshing and provides him an opportunity to learn from and contribute to the process of globalization.”
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