T. M. Thomas Isaac

T. M. Thomas Isaac
Minister of Finance of Kerala
Incumbent
Assumed office 25 May 2016
Preceded by	Oommen Chandy
Constituency	Alapuzha
In office 18 May 2006 – 18 May 2011
Preceded by	Vakkom Purushothaman
Succeeded by	K.M. Mani
Personal details
Born	Father's name : T.P Mathew Mother's name : Saramma Mathew children - Sara, Dora 26 September 1952 (1952-09-26) (age 71) Kottapuram near Kodungalloor, Travancore-Cochin, India
Died	Father's name : T.P Mathew Mother's name : Saramma Mathew children - Sara, Dora
Resting place	Father's name : T.P Mathew Mother's name : Saramma Mathew children - Sara, Dora
Political party	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
Parent	Father's name : T.P Mathew Mother's name : Saramma Mathew children - Sara, Dora
Alma mater	Centre for Development Studies, JNU
Occupation	Politician, Economist
Website	http://drthomasisaac.in/
Source: Official Website

T. M. Thomas Isaac (born 1952) is the Minister of Finance of the Indian state of Kerala and a central committee member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist). He represents Alappuzha constituency in the Kerala State Legislative Assembly. During his tenure as a member of the Kerala State Planning Board, he was in charge of the Peoples Planning in Kerala. He also served as the Finance Minister of Kerala from 2006 to 2011.

Personal life

The son of T. P. Mathew and Saramma Mathew, Isaac obtained a PhD from the Centre for Development Studies, which is academically affiliated to Jawaharlal Nehru University. His PhD thesis is titled Class Struggle and Industrial Structure: A Study of Coir Weaving Industry in Kerala 1859 - 1980. While a student, he became involved in student politics, being involved with the Students Federation of India (SFI), an organisation which is politically linked with the Communist Party of India (Marxist). He has held posts in the SFI at college, district and state level.

Isaac was a professor at the Centre for Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram and has published a number of articles and books.

Isaac is divorced from his wife Dr Nata Duvvury who is currently a senior lecturer at National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland. They have two daughters; Sara Duvisac, and Dora Duvisac.

Books

English

1. Science for Social Revolution: The Experience of Kerala Shastra Sahithya Parishad With B. Ekbal (1989)
2. Democracy at work in an Indian industrial cooperative: the story of Kerala Dinesh Beedi With Richard W. Franke and Pyaralal Raghavan. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. 1998
3. Kalliasseri experiment in local level planning With P. V. Unnikrishnan, T. Gangadharan, Sreekumar Chathopadhya, Lalitha Bhai Sathyan, and Ajay Kumar Varma. Trivandrum: Centre for Development Studies. Monograph Series: Kerala Research Programme on Local Level Development.1995
4. Modernisation and employment: the coir industry in Kerala. With R. A. Van Stuijvenberg and K. N. Nair. Indo-Dutch Studies on Development Alternatives 10. New Delhi: Sage Publications. 1992
5. Local Democracy and Development: People's campaign for decentralised planning in Kerala with Richard W. Franke. New Delhi: LeftWord Books. 2000

Malayalam

1. The Withering Coconut (1985)
2. Political Economy of Poverty (1985)
3. Economics Crisis in the Capitalist World (1987)
4. ABC of Political Economy (1987)
5. The World Bank and IMF (1988)
6. Kerala: Land and Man (1988) [Won Kerala Sahitya Academy Award in 1989]
7. Political Economy of Surrender (1992)
8. Peoples Planning: Theory and Practice (1998)
9. Peoples Planning: Questions and Answers (1998)
10. Construction of False Consent : Critique of Malayalam Media 2000 - 2010 (with N. P. Chandrasekharan)