Bhaskar Chakravorti

Non-Resident Senior Fellow

Bhaskar Chakravorti is the Dean of Global Business, Executive Director of the Institute for Business in the Global Context, and Chair of Digital Planet, at The Fletcher School, Tufts University. He is also a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at CSEP.

He leads education, research and organising thought leadership and dialogue on the issues at the intersection of global business, technology and international affairs, for example geo-politics, digital economies/resources/ food/energy/national security, law, diplomacy, through the Institute.

Dr Chakravorti writes extensively. His book The Slow Pace of Fast Change: Bringing Innovations to Market in a Connected World (Harvard Business School Press, 2003) has been well received. His forthcoming book co-edited with Joel Trachtman is titled Defeating Disinformation (Cambridge University Press, 2024). He has written for top academic/scientific journals including the Journal of Economic Theory and the Journal of Mathematical Economics. Dr Chakravorti regularly contributes to The Washington Post, Harvard Business Review, Foreign Policy, Indian Express, World Economic Forum Agenda. Formerly, he served as a partner at McKinsey & Company, on the faculty of Harvard Business School, as a Distinguished Fellow at the Legatum Center at MIT and on the global agenda council on innovation at the World Economic Forum.

Dr Chakravorti received his Ph.D. and M.A. in Economics from the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY. He holds a M.A. in Economics from the Delhi School of Economics, India and a B.A. in Economics (Honors) from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi University, India.

Current Positions

Non-Resident Senior Fellow, Brookings India
Dean of Global Business, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
Executive Director of the Institute for Business in the Global Context, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
Professor of the Practice of International Business, The Fletcher School, Tufts University

Past Positions

Partner, McKINSEY & COMPANY
Distinguished Scholar, Legatum Center for Development & Entrepreneurship, MIT
Senior Lecturer of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
Faculty Associate, Harvard University Center for the Environment
Partner and Thought Leader, Monitor Group LP
Consultant, Monitor Company
Member of Technical Staff, Bellcore (Bell Labs)
Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Officer (in training), TAS, Tata Group

Education

Ph.D. and M.A. in Economics, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
M.A. in Economics, Delhi School of Economics, Delhi, India
B.A. in Economics (Honors), St. Stephen’s College, Delhi University, Delhi, India

Bhaskar Chakravorti

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