Sonal S. Pandya

About

Sonal S. Pandya was a National Fellow at the Hoover Institution for the 2016-2017 year. Pandya is an Associate Professor and Graduate Placement Director in the Department of Politics at the University of Virginia. A scholar of international political economy, her research analyzes the influence of politics on the international organization of production. Her book Trading Spaces: Foreign Direct Investment Regulation, 1970-2000 (Cambridge UP, Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions Series) received the inaugural International Political Economy Society Best Book Award.  Her research appears in journals including Review of Economics and Statistics, International Organization, Annual Review of Political Science, Public Choice, and International Studies Quarterly. She is a graduate of Stanford University (BA) and Harvard University (PhD), and was a Niehaus Center Fellow at Princeton.