The JSW School of Public Policy (JSW-SPP) at the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, India (IIMA) is a center of excellence in the making. Set up very recently with support from the JSW Group, it seeks to make a distinctive contribution to knowledge on public policy through cutting-edge research on the emerging Indian experience of policy formulation and design, policy choice, policy impact, and educational programs. It aims at encouraging an interdisciplinary approach that allows diverse theoretical and methodological perspectives to be brought to the study of public policy. Over the years, IIMA faculty members have consistently engaged with public policy formulation and analysis, especially in agriculture, education, health, innovation, infrastructure, environment and energy, public finance and regulation, and governance. A significant amount of research, teaching and advisory work has been undertaken in these domains, creating for IIMA a reputation for innovative, grounded, and future-oriented contribution to improving policy formulation and implementation. JSW-SPP now seeks to build on this legacy by becoming an influential, research-oriented think-tank and policy training institute in the region. Its broad policy research focus is on: Public policy dialogues that bring together different stakeholders in an effort to refine policy formulation and design, Initiatives allowing the study of the science of policy implementation through realistic theories of change, Innovative evaluation methodologies that help generate a more nuanced understanding of the impact of policy interventions.