Felix Padel is a professor of sociology/anthropology in India, and author of several seminal books on tribal, mining and environmental issues - Sacrificing People: Invasions of a Tribal Landscape(1995/2010), Out of This Earth: East India Adivasis and the Aluminium Cartel (with Samarendra Das 2010), Ecology, Economy: Quest for a Socially Informed Connection (with Ajay Dandekar and Jeemol Unni). He was Professor of Rural Management at the Institute of Health Management Research October 2012-January 2014; and Visiting Professor at the Department of Economics, Visva Bharati university, Shantiniketan, West Bengal during March 2014. He was a key speaker at a National Seminar on SIAs entitled Assessing Social Impacts of Proposed Development Interventions: Focus on Projects Involving Resettlement held by The Council for Social Development and the Indian Council for Social Science Research in the India International Centre, Delhi, in May 2013.