Dr. Pratyush Sharma is a Consultant at DAKSHIN. He has over 10 years of experience in Development Cooperation and South-South Cooperation. Pratyush has a Doctorate in Peace and Conflict Studies from UN mandated University for Peace, Costa Rica. Pratyush has been a Queen Elizabeth Scholar for International Development at University of Calgary, and a Global Governance Fellow at Institute of Development and Sustainability, Bonn.
His PhD thesis “Theorizing South-South Cooperation through the Normative Lens of Right to Development: A case study of India” was examined and was examined and passed without any corrections and was described by the examiners (Prof. Juan Carlos Sainz-Borgo, Costa Rica and Dr. Shyami Puvimanasinghe, Geneva) as “the research carried out a well-argued theorisation and a convincing thesis thereby providing a useful approach to operationalise the Right to Development (RtD) in implementing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).” The thesis focussed on the interlinkages between the fields of International Development (SSC), and International Law (Right to Development), and in the broader context on issues of human rights and sustainable development.