Dr. Ranjit Lall

Biography

Ranjit Lall is an Associate Professor of International Relations at the University of Oxford and a fellow at St John's College. His research focuses on political economy, international cooperation, development, and technological change. He is currently working on a forthcoming book titled 'Making International Institutions Work', which seeks to understand how international institutions operate. His methodological interests include machine learning and the analysis of missing data. Ranjit earned his PhD in Government from Harvard University and holds a BA in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics from the University of Oxford. He has received prestigious accolades for his academic work, including the Merze Tate Award for his dissertation in the field of international relations, law, and politics from the American Political Science Association, as well as the Leamer-Rosenthal Prize from the Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences for his contributions to open social science. Before beginning his graduate studies, he worked as an economist at the Bank of England and as an editorial writer for Financial publications.

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