Poonam Batra is Professor of Education at the Central Institute of Education, University of Delhi, India. Recipient of the Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fellowship for research in teacher education and social change, Professor Batra has been on several Government of India Committees including the Supreme Court of India constituted Justice Verma Commission (JVC) on Teacher Education. Professor Batra’s major areas of professional focus include public policy in education; curriculum and pedagogy; social psychology of education, teacher education and gender studies. Her publications cover a range of issues in elementary education and public policy. Her most recent research examines how the education of the poor is constrained by the manner in which the relationship between poverty and quality education is constructed in an era of market-based reforms.