Saish Nevrekar holds a joint PhD in Economics from VU Amsterdam and IGIDR. After the completion of his PhD program, he worked as a visiting professor at the University of Carlos III Madrid. In 2021, he won a two-year postdoctoral grant awarded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO) for conducting research at the University of Zurich. His principal research interest is the field of industrial organization and competition policy. Specifically, the study of the design of competition policy to protect and boost innovation activities. Parallelly, he also works on the study of contest theory and the theory of non-cooperative games of coalition formation.