Ranjula Bali Swain is Visiting Professor and Research Director at Center for Sustainability Research (CSR), Stockholm School of Economics. She is Professor of Economics at Södertörn University. She is affiliated to the Center for European Research in Microfinance (CERMi), at the Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management. Bali Swain has worked at the International Labour Organisation, Geneva; Uppsala University and has been Visiting Professor at University of California, Berkeley, Stanford University, Tufts University, University of Pretoria, South Africa and UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network, New York, USA. Her research covers Microfinance, Sustainable Development, Circular Economy and she has received research grants from  Swedish Research Council (VR and Uforsk), Swedish Research Council for Sustainable Development (Formas), Swedish International Development Cooperation (Sida), Swedish Energy Agency.