Chirantan Chatterjee is a tenured faculty at University of Sussex in United Kingdom where he is a Reader in Economics of Innovation at the Science Policy Research Unit at University of Sussex Business School. He is also a Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University where in 2018-19 he was on sabbatical as an Edward Teller & Campbell National Fellow. Chatterjee also maintains a Visiting Professorship in Economics at IIM Ahmedabad, India where he has previously been a holder of the ICICI Bank Chair in Strategic Management and Chairperson of the Centre for Management of Health Services.
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, The RAND Journal of Economics, Journal of Development Economics, Research Policy, Production and Operations Management, Journal of Business Ethics, Social Science & Medicine, Strategy Science, Journal of Health Economics, Psychology of Women Quarterly and Journal of Law & Economics among other international journals. He is currently co-editing a book on Covid-19 & its effect on Innovation, Health and the Economy and has also published for Brookings Press, Oxford University Press (India), Harvard Business Review, Stanford Social Innovation Review and the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER).
Chatterjee’s policy work has involved working with The United Nations on its global Covid-19 response and earlier for The World Bank on Universal Health Coverage in India. Chatterjee is also regularly engaged with industry having worked with global healthcare organizations like Novartis, Novo Nordisk, Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, Wockhardt among others. He is a big believer in entrepreneurial start-ups and is faculty advisor to San Francisco based mobility data firm Citydata.ai and India based digital mental wellness firm www.ticktalkto.com. Chatterjee’s research is currently supported by the Wellcome Trust DBT India Alliance initiative, Alliance for a Healthy World at the Johns Hopkins University, Hoover Institution at Stanford University & Dinesh Thakur Foundation. Chatterjee earned a PhD & an MPhil in public policy and management from Carnegie Mellon University in 2011 after which he worked as a tenure track faculty member at IIM Bangalore and Indian School of Business before IIMA. Prior to his PhD, Chatterjee worked as a business journalist with The Times of India Group after his engineering and MBA degree from IIT Roorkee & IIM Calcutta. For more details one can visit www.chirantanchatterjee.com or engage with him socially on Twitter @chiruchat.