Devesh Kapur, non-resident fellow at the Center for Global Development, is the Madan Lal Sobti Associate Professor for the Study of Contemporary India and director of the Center for Advanced Study of India at the University of Pennsylvania. Before joining the University of Pennsylvania, he held appointments at the Brookings Institution, Harvard University, and University of Texas–Austin.

Devesh has a BTech and MS in chemical engineering and a PhD in Public Policy from Princeton University. He received the Joseph R. Levenson Teaching Prize awarded to the best junior faculty at Harvard College in 2005.