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Dr Rajeswari Sengupta is an Associate Professor of Economics at the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research in Mumbai. Her research focuses on policy-relevant, macro-financial issues of emerging market economies in general and India in particular, in the fields of international finance, open economy macroeconomics, national accounts measurement.

In the past she has held a faculty position at the Institute for Financial Management and Research (IFMR Business School) in Chennai, and short-term research positions at the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank in Washington DC, as well as the San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank. She was a visitor at the City University of Hong Kong in 2013 and at the Osnabruck University in Germany in 2024. She was also a recipient of the ICRIER Young Scholar Grant in 2013 for attending the NBER Summer Institute in Boston. 

Dr Sengupta was a member of the research secretariat for the Bankruptcy Law Reforms Committee that proposed India's Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016. She is currently a member of the FICCI Economists’ Forum and the Society for Economics Research in India (SERI). She is also an Editor in Chief at the Journal of South Asian Development. 

She has published her research papers in reputed international journals including The Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Economic Policy, The Journal of International Money and Finance, The World Economy, Emerging Markets Review, International Review of Economics and Finance, Journal of Asian Economics, Pacific Economic Review, and Open Economies Review. She also writes regularly on Indian economic issues in leading English as well as Bengali newspapers.

She completed her M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC). She holds two previous degrees in Economics: a Bachelor's degree from Presidency College, Calcutta and a Masters from Delhi School of Economics. Details of her work can be found here.