Dr Jaideep Gupte is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, where his research is on violence, vulnerability and conflict, with a particular geographic focus on South Asia.

He was formerly a Research Fellow at the Urban Design Research Institute, Mumbai. Jaideep's areas of specialisation include (1) policing and security for development, and (2) vulnerability, violence and informal justice in urban slums. He occasionally contributes opinion pieces and reports to Indian national dailies.

Jaideep's training is in Politics (University of Oxford), Development Studies (IDS, University of Sussex), and Economics (Simon Fraser University). He has research experience in India, Bangladesh, and Nigeria.