Dr Barai completed his Maters, MPhil and PhD from Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, India. He is a recipient of a number of national and international academic awards including the ICCR (India) Scholarship, UGC’s (India) Junior and Senior Research Fellowships, Asian Scholarship Foundation (ASF) Fellowship for conducting a research in Vietnam. He was awarded the Senior Fulbright Scholarship to do Post-doc research at the University of Pennsylvania, USA. Dr Barai has got published a good number of research articles in different referred journals and books. He has developed a keen interest for doing research in the areas of finance, business and trade, poverty and WTO.