Shoumitro Chatterjee is an Assistant Professor of International Economics at the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University. His research interests lie at the intersection of development economics and international trade. He has published in leading journals such as the Quarterly Journal of Economics and American Economic Review. He also writes regularly for Indian publications on issues of trade, development, and policy. He is the recipient of the International Economics Research Annual Award from EXIM Bank (2019) and was recognized by ThePrint in 2024 as one of India’s leading economic thinkers of the next decade.
Dr. Chatterjee is a Research Affiliate of the Center for Economic Policy Research and a Non-Resident Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study of India at the University of Pennsylvania. Before joining SAIS, he was a faculty member at the Pennsylvania State University and Georgetown University. In addition, he served as an Economist in the Office of the Chief Economic Advisor of India during 2015-16.
Dr. Chatterjee received his Ph.D. in Economics from Princeton University in 2018 and was an INET-Postdoc at the University of Cambridge in 2018-19. He earned his Bachelor of Arts (with honors) in Economics from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi in 2009 and subsequently completed an MA in economics from the Delhi School of Economics in 2011.
