Pravin Krishna

Background and Education

Pravin Krishna is the Chung Ju Yung Distinguished Professor of International Economics and Business at Johns Hopkins University, where he is jointly appointed in the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington, DC and the Department of Economics in the Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences (KSAS) in Baltimore. Professor Krishna is also Co-Chair of the Bernard L. Schwartz Globalization Initiative at Johns Hopkins SAIS and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). Professor Krishna has previously been Professor of Economics at Brown University and has also held appointments at a number of other universities, including the University of Chicago, Columbia University, Princeton University, Stanford University and INSEAD. He has served as a consultant to the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.

Professor Krishna’s areas of research interest include international economics, international political economy, the political economy of policy reform, economic development and the political economy of India. His research has been published in numerous journals including the American Economic Review, the Journal of Political Econom_y, the _Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Review of Economic Studies, the Review of Economics and Statistics, International Organization, the Journal of International Economics and the Journal of Development Economics. He has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of International Economics and the Journal of Policy Reform. A recipient of research funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF), he is the author of Trade Blocs: Economics and Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2005) and along with Jagdish Bhagwati and Arvind Panagariya is co-editor of Trading Blocs: Alternate Analyses of Preferential Trade Agreements (MIT Press, 1999). He holds a BA in Tech from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay and an MA, MPhil and PhD from Columbia University.

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), M Phil, M A Columbia University in the City of New York (1990 — 1995)
• Bachelor's Degree Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (1986 — 1990)

Companies

• Senior Research Fellow Columbia University in the City of New York, Raj Center on Indian Economic Policy (2019)
• Chung Ju Yung Distinguished Professor of International Economics and Business Johns Hopkins University (2004)
• Research Associate National Bureau of Economic Research (2000)
• Visiting Professor of Economics and Deputy Director, Center for Indian Economic Policies Columbia University in the City of New York (2015 — 2017)
• Professor of Economics Brown University (1995 — 2004)
• Visiting Professor and Fellow (International Economics Section) Princeton University (2002 — 2003)
• John Olin Visiting Associate Professor and George Stigler Fellow University of Chicago Booth School of Business (2000 — 2001)
• Visiting Assistant Professor Stanford University (1997 — 1998)