Jack Wang and Echo Ren Professor of Economics

Professor of International and Public Affairs

Co-director, the Columbia Center on Political Economy

Member, Committee on Global Thought

Suresh Naidu is the Jack Wang and Echo Ren Professor of Economics and Professor of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. He was a Harvard Academy fellow from 2008-2010, and has been at Columbia since 2010. Naidu works on political economy and historical labor markets. His interests focus on the economic effects of democracy and non-democracy, monopsony in labor markets, the economics of American slavery, guest worker migration, and labor unions and labor organizing. Naidu is also external faculty at the Santa Fe Institute and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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Education:

  • PHd, University of California, Berkeley
  • MA in Economics, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
  • B.Math, Unversity of Waterloo