Shoumitro Chatterjee

Shoumitro Chatterjee is an Assistant Professor of International Economics. He is a Research Affiliate at the Centre for Economic Policy Research and a Visiting Scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations.

His research lies at the intersection of international trade, globalization, and macro-development, with a particular focus on the role of agriculture in economic development. His academic work has been published in leading journals, including the American Economic Review and the Quarterly Journal of Economics.

Chatterjee received his Ph.D. in Economics from Princeton University in 2018 and was an INET Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Cambridge during 2018–19. He earned a B.A. (Honours) in Economics from St. Stephen’s College in 2009, followed by an M.A. in Economics from the Delhi School of Economics in 2011.

Prior to joining Johns Hopkins, he held faculty positions at Pennsylvania State University and Georgetown University. 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 of India (2019) and was recognized by ThePrint in 2024 as one of India’s leading economic thinkers of the next decade.