Hrishikesh D. Vinod is a professor of Economics and director of the Institute for Ethics and Economic Policy at Fordham University, NY. He received his MA from the Delhi School of Economics and Ph. D. in Economics from Harvard University, has worked at Bell Laboratories for many years, and had been an expert witness in major anti-trust trials. He published on anti-corruption before it was fashionable to do so. He has published seven books and over 120 articles in top journals in Economics-related fields. His 2011 international conference on Hinduism was covered in the media.