Anusha Chari

About

Anusha Chari is a professor of economics and finance at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  She is the chair of the American Economic Association’s Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession. She is also a research associate in the National Bureau of Economic Research’s International Finance and Macroeconomics Program, a research fellow at the Center for Economic and Policy Research, and a senior research fellow at the Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise.

Professor Chari has served on the faculties of the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business, the University of Michigan, the Haas School of Business at the University of California–Berkeley, and the Economics Department at Harvard University. She was the inaugural director of the Modern Indian Studies Initiative at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She was also a special advisor to the Indian prime minister’s Economic Advisory Council and a member of an advisory group of eminent persons on G20 Issues. She is an associate editor at the Journal of International Economics and the Journal of Economic Perspectives.

Her research is in the fields of international finance and macroeconomics with a focus on emerging financial markets. She studies an array of topics, such as US monetary policy spillovers to other countries; international financial markets and the impacts of financial globalization; corporate and sovereign debt; cross-border mergers and acquisitions, global fund flows, and the underrepresentation of women in economics.

She received her PhD in international finance from the University of California–Los Angeles, her BA in philosophy, politics, and economics from Oxford University, and her BA with honors in economics from the University of Delhi.