An Institutional Review Board (IRB) comprises a committee that reviews and approves research involving human subjects. The purpose of the IRB is to ensure that all human subject research will be conducted in accordance with legal, institutional, and professional ethical guidelines. The IRB committee consists of 19 internal members from different disciplines who are faculty and researchers within Ashoka University, and two experts from outside Ashoka (including a medical and a legal expert). The committee is headed by a Chair and Co-chair who responsible for overall supervision. The committee is assisted by the Member Secretary. Each IRB member from Ashoka serves for three years, on average, with some members serving for briefer or longer periods. 

Core Committee

Chair: Malvika Maheshwari, Department of Political Science

Co-Chair: Gautam Menon, Department of Physics & Biology and Dean of Research

Member Secretary: Aastha

Internal Members

Dipin Kaur, Department of Political Science and International Relations

Can Evren, Department of Sociology and Anthropolpgy

Srijita Ghosh, Department of Economics

Supriya Ray, Department of Psychology 

Naseer Ahmad Bhat, Department of Psychology

Pratyusha Govindaraju, Center for Social and Behaviour Change (CSBC)

Sneha Shashidhara, Center for Social and Behaviour Change (CSBC)

Padmini Vishwanath, Center for Social and Behaviour Change (CSBC)

Vrinda Chopra, Center for Writing and Communication (CWC)                                                                       

Kalyan Sekhar Chakraborty, Department of History & Center for  Interdisciplinary Archeological Research

Arunima Theraja, Centre for Studies in Gender and Sexuality (CSGS)

Sayantani Mukherjee, Department of History & Center for China Studies

Manvi Sharma, Department of Environmental Studies

Vivek Narayan, Department of English

Anandajit Goswami, Ashoka Centrefor People Centric Energy Transition (ACPET)

Krishanu Chakraborty, Centre for Social Impact and Philanthropy (CSIP)

External Members

Medical Expert

Shifalika Goenka, Centre for Chronic Disease Control (CCDC)

Legal Expert

Namita Wahi, Fellow at Centre for Policy Research