Dr. Amit Khandelwal

Biography

Amit Khandelwal is a senior faculty member at the Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs, serving as the Dong-Soo Hahn Professor of Global Affairs and Economics. He previously held the Jerome Chazen Professorship in Global Business and chaired the Economics Division at Columbia Business School. Khandelwal has affiliations with the National Bureau of Economic Research, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (JPAL). His research primarily focuses on the link between international trade and economic development, having studied the effects of trade reforms in China and India on global market participation and firms' productivity. He has also conducted randomized trials to explore the causal impacts of trade, foreign direct investment, and technology adoption in countries like Egypt, Myanmar, and Pakistan. His recent work examines the implications of the U.S. trade war on the U.S. economy. In the classroom, Khandelwal teaches courses in microeconomics and emerging markets and has led international seminars on the economies of India, China, and Myanmar. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from Yale University and holds Bachelor's degrees in Economics and Mathematics from Northwestern University.

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