Eri Ikeda is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi. She obtained her Master’s and Doctoral Degrees from the International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam, in the Netherlands. She teaches macro- and micro-economics to postgraduate (MBA) students, and her current area of research focuses on economic security, the global economic system, business cycles, and industrial and economic development. She was a 2023 JFIPP (Japan Foundation Indo-Pacific Partnership) fellow and currently a Visiting Research Fellow at the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology (RCAST), The University of Tokyo.