Dr. T. M. Thomas Isaac is a known economist and politician. He is presently the Minister of Finance of the Indian state of Kerala and a central committee member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist). Isaac obtained his Ph.D. from the Centre for Development Studies, which is academically affiliated to Jawaharlal Nehru University. His Ph.D. thesis is titled Class Struggle and Industrial Structure: A Study of Coir Weaving Industry in Kerala 1859 - 1980.