Shoumitro Chatterjee

Shoumitro Chatterjee is a nonresident scholar in the Carnegie South Asia Program and an assistant professor of international economics at the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University. He is also a research affiliate at the Centre for Economic Policy Research, London. His research spans international trade, globalization, macro-development, and structural transformation, with a particular focus on agriculture and agricultural markets.

His academic work has been published in leading journals, including the American Economic Review and the Quarterly Journal of Economics. He also writes regularly for Indian publications on issues of trade, development, and policy.

Chatterjee received his Ph.D. in Economics from Princeton University in 2018 and was an INET Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Cambridge in 2018–19. He holds a B.A. (Hons.) in Economics from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi, and an M.A. in Economics from the Delhi School of Economics. Prior to joining Johns Hopkins, he taught at Pennsylvania State University and at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business. He also served as an economist in the office of the Chief Economic Adviser, Government of India, during 2015–16.

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.