Dr.Gedam. Kamalakar, Senior Fellow ICSSR, Osmania University, M.A, LLM, BE.d, PhD, PDF. SET. Co-Director Minor Project, and Research Assistant, ICSSR Major Research Project, He is awarded Post Doctoral Fellow by the Dr. Ambedkar Open University, Hyderabad, for the thesis on “Equity and Access in Higher Education: A Comparative Study of Central and State Universities in Telangana” With a PhD in Political Science. He is awarded Doctorate by the Osmania University, Hyderabad, for the thesis on “WTO and GATS: Implication for the Indian Higher Education”. He is the recipient of RGNF Fellowship from the UGC and Pre-Doctoral Fellowship from OUCIP. He worked as a guest faculty at City College, Hyderabad and as a Counselor at Ambedkar Open University. He has written 3 books and edited 4 books and also published research articles in 24 UGC care list Journals. He also reviewed 13 Books and published them in UGC care list journals and sage publications. His scholarly impact is reflected in 683 citations, an H-index of 5, I index 3. He received 7 awards including Amazing Grace Award, Pride India Award, Dr.B.R. Ambedkar Excellency Award, International Research Excellence Award, Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Life Time Achievement National Award, National best Teacher Award and Vidya Bharati Award. He presented research papers in more than 24 International, National Conferences and seminars. He has published thematic research papers in 52 National and 54 International Level Peer Reviewed / Refereed Research Journals He is also the Assistant Editor to an International journal and a Member of Editorial board & Reviewer for National and International journals published from 20 countries like USA, Turkey, Syria, UK, Pakistan, China etc. and has membership in 4 various associations

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