Sanket Mohapatra

Sanket Mohapatra is an Associate Professor at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Ahmedabad. He was earlier a Senior Economist at the World Bank's Global Macroeconomics Team in Washington, DC. His research interests span international macroeconomics, private capital flows, sovereign and sub-sovereign credit ratings, financial liberalisation, globalisation, economic growth, poverty and inequality, and the development implications of migration and remittances. He has monitored economic developments in the South Asia region, and contributed to the World Bank's flagship reports such as Global Economic Prospects and Global Development Finance. He also co-edited a volume on 'Remittance Markets in Africa', a compilation of country studies of remittance markets in eight African countries and in France and the UK, published as part of the World Bank’s Directions in Development Finance series. He holds a Masters from Delhi School of Economics and a Ph.D in Economics from Columbia University (New York).