CSWEP Board: Ina Ganguli

Ina Ganguli is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Associate Director of the UMass Computational Social Science Institute (CSSI).  Her primary research areas are labor economics and the economics of science and innovation. Her recent research has focused on the migration of high-skill workers, gender disparities in the labor market, and the formation of scientific collaborations. She is a research fellow at the IZA Institute of Labor Economics, the Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard University (LISH), and the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE) at the Stockholm School of Economics.  She holds a PhD from Harvard University, a Masters in Public Policy from the University of Michigan and a Bachelor of Arts from Northwestern University.  In 2018 she received the Russian National Prize in Applied Economics and previously received honorable mention for the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research Dissertation Award.  She has been a U.S. Embassy Policy Specialist Fellow in Russia, Azerbaijan and Tajikistan, a Fulbright Scholar in Ukraine, and a Bundestag International Parliamentary Program Fellow in Germany.