Pankaj divides his time between making documentaries and advising multilateral agencies on rural poverty alleviation. He has worked on a number of community videos, advocacy films, factual series for television and documentaries. His last Film for PSBT, Apna Aloo Bazaar Becha, has been screened widely and won the Golden Deer at the prestigious Rodos Ecofilms Festival, 2008. He has a Masters in Sustainable Development from Staffordshire University, been a Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Social & Economic Change and a Commonwealth scholar and published in scholarly and popular journals.