Anirudh Burman is the Senior Research Lead at XKDR Forum. He has worked in different research and policy engagement capacities in leading think tanks in India. He has spent most of his career exploring and understanding critical challenges in India’s development and economic growth, with a more recent focus on urban development and land markets

Before joining XKDR, Burman was Programme Head for Research in WRI India's Cities program. Prior to that, he was an associate research director and fellow at Carnegie India. He works on issues related to public institutions, the administrative and regulatory state, and state capacity issues in domains such as land, urban development and governance, and technology. Burman has also served on GOI task forces on urban development, and data governance.

Burman has published papers, book chapters, and essays on India’s land markets and the political economy of land market reforms, market-oriented approaches to improve land titles, and reforms in agricultural marketing. He has also published papers on regulatory governance in India, and anchored research strategies to produce peer-reviewed knowledge products on urban governance, land markets, and regulatory governance.