Seminar Series: Chirantan Chatterjee

Chirantan Chatterjee, PhD, is an economist with research interests in economics of innovation, applied microeconomics, pharmaceutical economics, and global health. He is currently an Associate Professor in Business Policy and Economics at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, where he also holds the ICICI Bank Chair in Strategic Management. He has been published in top peer-reviewed journals like the RAND Journal of Economics, the Journal of Health Economics, the Journal of Law & Economics, Research Policy, Production and Operations Management, the Journal of Business Ethics, Social Science & Medicine, Health Policy and Planning, Economic and Political Weekly, and the Journal of Antitrust Enforcement. He has also published for Brookings Press, Oxford University Press (India), and the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER).

Chatterjee’s dissertation work 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. In 2017, Chatterjee was invited to chair the round table on IP and Access to Medicines at the 2017 Annual Conference of European Policy for Intellectual Property in Bordeaux, France.

Chatterjee has also consulted with the World Bank and the Competition Commission of India. His input has been cited in a 2015 Tarun Khanna Committee Report by the National Institution for Transforming India (NITI) Aayog, currently India's central planning authority, also formulating innovation and entrepreneurship policy for the Indian economy. At the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Bangalore, where he was previously a faculty member between 2011–16, Chatterjee conceptualized and chaired the First India Conference on Innovation, Intellectual Property and Competition, a first of its kind international innovation policy conference in India. This conference convened again in 2018 with Chatterjee cochairing the event as a faculty member in economics and public policy at the Indian School of Business, where he also was the Bharti Institute and Max Institute Research Fellow in Public Policy and Healthcare.

Chatterjee's deep passion about Indian healthcare markets and for democratizing education has also resulted in the first ever MOOC on health care markets in India in 2016, available through edX. In his spare time, he regularly contributes op-eds on economics and public policy issues for national dailies like LiveMint, Economic Times, Times of India, Hindu Business Line, and the Hindustan Times and tweets @chiruchat. He 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.