Anusha Chari

About

Anusha Chari is a Professor of Economics and Finance at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  She is also a Research Associate in the National Bureau of Economic Research’s International Finance and Macroeconomics Program, a CEPR research fellow, a senior research fellow at the Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise, and a visiting fellow at The Hoover Institution at Stanford University. She is an associate editor at the Journal of Economic Perspectives and the Journal of International Economics.

In 2024, she served on the President's Council of Economic Advisers. Between 2022-2024, she served as Chair of the American Economic Association's Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession (CSWEP) and as associate chair for mentoring between 2021-2022. 

​She holds a Ph.D. in International Finance from the Anderson School at UCLA and a BA in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics from Balliol College at Oxford and Economics at the University of Delhi. She received a Radhakrishnan scholarship for study at Oxford and a University of California Office of the President Dissertation Fellowship.
 
Professor Chari has served on the faculties of the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business, the economics department at Harvard University, the University of Michigan, and The Haas School of Business at Berkeley. She was the Inaugural Director of the Modern Indian Studies Initiative at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She was a research associate at the Swiss Institute of Banking and Finance at St. Gallen, Switzerland, and a summer intern at the International Monetary Fund.

She was 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. Her research is in the fields of open-economy macroeconomics and international finance.

​Professor Chari is the author of multiple articles published in leading academic journals such as the Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Financial Economics, American Economic Journal-Macroeconomics, and Journal of International Economics. She teaches courses on Multinational Financial Management, International Financial Markets, and Open-Economy Macroeconomics in the MBA, BBSA, and Ph.D. programs at UNC.