Chirantan Chatterjee

About

Chirantan Chatterjee is a Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution. Chatterjee was previously the 2018-19 Edward Teller & Campbell National Fellow at the Hoover Institution.

He is currently a tenured faculty & Reader in Economics of Innovation, at University of Sussex Business School in UK with the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU). Chatterjee also is a Visiting Professor in Economics at IIM Ahmedabad, India.

Chatterjee’s research interests are in economics of innovation, applied microeconomics, pharmaceutical economics, and global health. He has been published in top peer- reviewed journals like Management Science, RAND Journal of Economics, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Health Economics, Journal of Law & Economics, Research Policy, Production and Operations Management, Journal of Business Ethics, Social Science & Medicine, Health Policy and Planning and Review of Development Economics, among others. His new co-edited book on Covid-19 and Grand Challenges for Health, Innovation and Economy is forthcoming with World Scientific. Chatterjee has also published for Brookings Press, Oxford University Press (India), and the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER).

Chatterjee’s dissertation work at Carnegie Mellon University on the economics of innovation and intellectual property (IP) in the global pharmaceutical industry was supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF), and in 2015 his research was cited on NSF’s Science of Science Policy website. All his current research is listed at www.chirantanchatterjee.com.

His current work is being supported by the Wellcome Trust India Alliance Grant and the Johns Hopkins Alliance for a Health World Initiative. Chatterjee has previously held the ICICI Bank Chair in Strategic Management at IIM Ahmedabad, he has also been a former full time faculty member at IIM Bangalore and Indian School of Business. In the past he has consulted for the United Nations and World Bank on Covid-19 and Universal Health Coverage.

Chatterjee earned a PhD and an MPhil in public policy and management from the Carnegie Mellon University in 2011. Prior to his doctoral education, Chatterjee worked as a business journalist for the Economic Times, India’s leading business daily after earning his BTech (civil engineering) from the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee and MBA from the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta. In his spare time, he likes doing music with his 7-year-old son, trying new recipes in the kitchen, or hitting the road with family for road trips.