Kalyan Chatterjee (economist)
Kalyan Chatterjee (economist)
- Kalyan Chatterjee** is an Indian-American economist and game theorist. He is Distinguished Professor of Economics and Management Science at Pennsylvania State University. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society.
Academic career Chatterjee joined Pennsylvania State University in 1979 as an assistant professor. He was promoted to associate professor in 1985 and to professor in 1988. In 1993, he was appointed distinguished professor of Management Science. Since 2002, he has held the title of distinguished professor of Economics and Management Science at the university.
He has held numerous visiting appointments, including at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (Member, School of Social Science, 2014–15), University of Cambridge (including St John's College and Churchill College), Paris School of Economics, University of Birmingham, University of Nottingham, the Indian Statistical Institute, National Taiwan University, and other institutions.
Awards and honors Chatterjee was elected Overseas Fellow (Title F) at Churchill College, Cambridge, for 2000–2001, and during the same period received an American Philosophical Society Sabbatical Fellowship. In 2003, he was elected a Fellow of the Econometric Society.
He was a Richard B. Fisher Member at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton during 2014–2015.