Besides the Core Faculty the ISID has a number of Visiting Scholars and Research Fellows who take up studies on industrial and trade policies. This group also includes Ph D scholars from Indian and foreign universities. ISID is a unique institution having a large network of senior academics, policy makers, journalists and audio-visual media personalities who form the third component. The network is being extended to become a part of the global system with European universities.

Visiting Professors

• Prof. T.S. Papola, Honorary Professor, Member, Council on 'Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises' under the Chairmanship of Prime Minister, Government of India & National Fellow, ICSSR

• Prof. Sunanda Sen, Visiting Professor (ICSSR National Fellow)

• Shri Nilmadhab Mohanty, IAS (Retd), Honorary Senior Fellow

• Shri M.M.K. Sardana, IAS (Retd), Visiting Fellow

• Prof. T.P. Bhat, Consultant

Members of the Scholar Network

• Prof. Jan Hesselberg, Oslo University, Oslo, Norway
• Prof. Jan ter Wengel, Free University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• Prof. Daniel Drache, Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies, York University, Toronto, Canada
• Prof. Rakesh Basant, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad
• Dr Liaquat Ali, Former UNCTAD Consultant
• Prof. Gerd Junne, Amsterdam University, The Netherlands
• Mr Sameer Goyal, World Bank, Washington
• Prof. O.V. Malyarov, Institute of Oriental Studies, Moscow
• Prof. Rajan Malviya, Institute for Economics and Political Counselling, Munich
• Dr Rana Hasan, East-West Center, Hawaii.
• Dr Ananya Mukherjee-Reed, York University, Toronto, Canada
• Prof. Jongsoo Park, Gyeongsang National University, South Korea
• Mr Narendra Reddy, Senior Economic Columnist, Hyderabad
• Prof. Kamal Mitra Chenoy, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
• Dr Nagesh Kumar, Director, Macroeconomic Policy and Development Division, UN-ESCAP, Bangkok
• Dr Biswajit Dhar, Director-General, Research & Information System for Non-Aligned & Other Developing Countries, New Delhi
• Dr Alok Puranik, Maharaja Agrasen College, Delhi
• Prof. Harbans Singh Sidhu, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar
• Dr Shripad Bhat, Toyota Kirloskar Motor Ltd, Bangalore
• Prof. Ashwani Kr Bansal, Faculty of Law, Delhi University, Delhi
• Mr Arun Goyal, Academy of Business Studies, Delhi
• Dr Sandeep Sarkar, Institute of Human Development, New Delhi
• Shri M.G.S. Yadav, Altima Techonologies Inc., Chicago, USA
• Shri B.M. Gupta, Central Board of Secondary Education, New Delhi
• Dr Anil Yadav, Institute of Applied Manpower Research, New Delhi
• Dr P.C. Singh, Ministry of External Affairs, New Delhi
• Dr U.R. Prasad, Central Electricity Regulatory Commission, New Delhi
• Dr Ashok Chandra Prasad, Ministry of Commerce, New Delhi
• Mr K.R. Tripathi, Gorakhpur University, Gorakhpur
• Ms Sumangala Damodaran, Lady Shri Ram College, Delhi
• Ms Nitasha Devasar, Oxford University Press, Delhi
• Ms Sangeeta Pratap, Instituto Technologico Autonomo de Mexico (ITAM)
• Ms Sudha Sachdeva, Lady Irwin College, New Delhi.
• Prof. N.S. Siddharthan, Honorary Professor, Madras School of Economics and Member Secretary and Honorary Director, Forum for Global Knowledge Sharing
• Dr Vinoj Abraham, Centre for Development Studies, Trivandrum
• Dr Keshab Das, Gujarat Institute of Development Research (GIDR), Ahmedabad
• Dr G.S. Mehta, Giri Institute of Development Studies, Lucknow
• Md Zakaria Siddiqui, PhD Scholar, Faculty of Law, University of Ghent, Belgium
• Dr Abhilasha Kumari, Director, School of Mass Communication, KIIT University, Bhubaneswar
• Dr Jaya Prakash Pradhan, Associate Professor, Sardar Patel Institute of Economic & Social Research, Ahmedabad
• Dr Atulan Guha, Assistant Professor, Institute of Rural Management, Anand, Gujarat
• Dr Surajit Mazumdar, Associate Professor, Dr B.R. Ambedkar University, Delhi
• Prof. Nasir Tyabji, Visiting Professor, Centre for Jawaharlal Nehru Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi