Chirantan Chatterjee, Professor of Economics at the University of Sussex Business School, has been named a Founding Fellow of the UK’s Royal Economic Society (RES).As of 1 May 2025,this honour recognises his influential contributions to the field and grants him the post-nominal FREcon (Fellow of the Royal Economic Society).
The fellowship highlights Chatterjee’s global impact across research, teaching, practice and policy, and his commitment to research that drives real-world change. Over the past two decades, Chatterjee has advanced economics research in the US, India and now the UK, applying an interdisciplinary lens to sustainable development, science and innovation policy, and global health.
His teaching spans a wide range of subjects, including pharmaceutical economics, economics of AI, health economics, empirical industrial organisation, managerial and sports economics, and the economics of innovation. He has delivered keynotes in China, Scotland, South Africa and India, and his work has been supported by organisations such as the NSF, Sloan Foundation, Wellcome Trust, United Nations, World Bank, WHO, Pfizer and Qualcomm.
Since joining Sussex in 2021, Chatterjee has co-edited a book on Covid-19 and grand challenges for the global economy and has published more than ten publications with several of them in top journals in economics, development, management sciences, innovation and public health.
An applied economist working at the intersection of development, innovation and global health, Chatterjee’s research has informed the work of international bodies including the United Nations, WHO and the Government of South Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic. He also holds visiting professorships at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition in Munich and Ahmedabad University in India. His previous roles include ICICI Bank Chair at IIM Ahmedabad and National Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
Chatterjee is dedicated to mentoring early-career researchers, reflecting his commitment to advancing economic understanding worldwide and nurturing socially-conscious scholars. He earned his PhD and MPhil in public policy and management from Carnegie Mellon University, following a BTech and MBA from IIT Roorkee and IIM Calcutta. Earlier in his career, he worked as a business economics journalist for The Economic Times in Mumbai.