Anindya Chaudhuri
NISTADS, CSIR
(India)
Anindya Chaudhuri works principally in the related areas of telecommunications and
information technologies at the National Institute of Science, Technology & Development
Studies (NISTADS), India.
He received his PhD in Public Policy from The University of Texas at Austin, USA, and
Bachelors and Masters degrees in Economics from Jadavpur University, India. His doctoral
dissertation was a theoretical and empirical investigation of the market for Internet services in
the US. At UT Austin, he was associated with the University of Texas Inequality Project
(UTIP) and the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS), researching income and wealth inequality
metrics internationally.
In 2006, he joined the National Center for Educational Accountability, USA, as Lead
Researcher & Project Coordinator, where he analyzed the public education systems at the
state and district levels. He joined the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (IIM-C) as an
Assistant Professor with the Public Policy & Management Group in 2008, where he taught
doctoral courses in public policy analysis, research methods, and computational technologies.
Apart from knowledge-technologies, his other interests include comparative public education
systems and labor market dynamics.
September 2011