Ranja Sengupta works as Senior Researcher and Coordinator of the Trade Programme of Third World Network (TWN) and heads its India Office. She has an M. Phil Degree in Economics from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. Her work spans agricultural institutions, international trade and investment, globalisation, poverty and inequality. She currently works on global trade and investment policies including those framed by the WTO and the Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) and their impact on development priorities in the South; including agriculture and the right to food, human development, employment and livelihoods, access to critical services and gender. She has been tracking the Financing for Development and the 2030 Agenda/ SDGs negotiations since the beginning, looking especially at Means of implementation issues with a specific focus on international trade policy and development goals.