Dhritiraj Sarma is an alumnus of Cotton University, Guwahati who after his M.A. joined as a Research/Project Assistant on a major DST sponsored project on climate change. He has worked on several research papers and edited book chapters in the field of economics and higher education. He has presented a graduate thesis on "Economics of Climate Change and its Impact on Tea Industry in Assam" as his Masters thesis. He also worked in several organisations as an intern in the domain of economic research. His main areas of interest include field based studies on Agricultural and Environmental Economics, Health Economics, Growth and Development particularly in the context of North East India.