Chirantan Chatterjee is a Professor of Development Economics, Innovation & Global Health at the Department of Economics, University of Sussex Business School (USBS). He was earlier a Professor and Reader in Economics of Innovation at the Science Policy Research Unit in USBS between 2021-2024 when he was also the PhD Program Convenor & Co-Director of Policy Training & Executive Education at SPRU-Sussex and REF 2029 Deputy-Lead at the U-Sussex Business School. In 2024 Chatterjee was also appointed as a FRSA (Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, UK).
Chatterjee also is a Visiting Professor at MIPLC, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition in Germany apart from being a Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University where he has been earlier affiliated as a National Fellow from 2018. Between 2018 and 2021, he was a full time associate professor in economics and strategy at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, where he held the ICICI Bank Chair in Strategic Management and was also Chairperson of the Centre for Management of Health Services at IIMA. In 2019, Chatterjee was awarded the IIM Ahmedabad VVEF Outstanding Researcher Award. He was also a 2018-2019 recipient of the prestigious W. Glenn Campbell and Rita Ricardo-Campbell National Fellowship award, at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. Chatterjee was also additionally appointed in 2019 as the Edward Teller National Fellow at Hoover Institution, Stanford University. Chatterjee's current research on economics of innovation, pharmaceutical economics and global health is being supported by the Wellcome Trust DBT India Alliance initiative, Alliance for a Healthy World at the Johns Hopkins University & Hoover Institution at Stanford University. In November 2020, Chatterjee was part of an international group of experts to work as a Team Member, Socioeconomic Research for the United Nations, evaluating and drawing early lessons for its UN MPTF program.
Prior to IIMA, Chatterjee was a faculty member in economics and public policy at the Indian School of Business. At ISB he was a Bharti Institute & Max Institute Research Fellow in Public Policy & Healthcare. Before ISB, Chatterjee was a faculty member between 2011 and 2017 with IIM Bangalore where he held the Young Faculty Research Chair. Chatterjee earned a Ph.D. & an M.Phil. in public policy and management in 2011 from the Heinz College, Carnegie Mellon University. He has a B.Tech. in civil engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee and a MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta. Between 2003 & 2005, after his MBA, Chatterjee worked as a business journalist for The Economic Times, India.
Chatterjee's research employs insights from empirical industrial organization and applied microeconomics, to examine the trade-offs between access, innovation and welfare in global pharmaceutical & healthcare markets. His work is published in global peer- reviewed outlets like the Management Science, RAND Journal of Economics, Journal of Development Economics, Research Policy, Production and Operations Management, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organization, Strategy Science, Journal of Health Economics, Health Economics, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, The Journal of Law & Economics, Harvard Business Review, Social Science & Medicine, Psychology of Women Quarterly, Technology Forecasting and Social Change, Health Policy and Planning, Economic and Political Weekly, Journal of Antitrust Enforcement among others. His work has also been published by Brookings Press and NBER. His dissertation work on economics of innovation and IP in the global pharmaceutical industry was supported by the National Science Foundation, and in 2015 his research was cited on the NSF Science of Science Policy website. In the past Chatterjee’s research has also been supported by Pfizer’s International Policy Unit.
Chatterjee has also been invited for research seminars & keynotes at universities around the world including UC Berkeley, Stanford University (Hoover IP2 conference 2016 and 2017), Nankai University, LUISS University, University of Pennsylvania's LDI Research Seminar Series & India & Innovation Conference, NBER Summer Institute & Productivity Meetings, the 2016 Lifesciences Symposium by Bates & White, Georgia Institute of Technology, London Business School, National University of Singapore, Institute of Innovation Research at Hitotsubashi University, Peking University HSBC Business School, Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi & Kolkata and Indian Institute of Management at Ahmedabad and Kolkata. In the past, Chatterjee has consulted for the World Bank (on Universal Healthcare Coverage in India) & Competition Commission of the Government of India (on Indian pharmaceutical markets).
Chatterjee has been actively involved in executive education with healthcare executives and leaders conducting programs as faculty director and instructor with Johnson & Johnson (on Indian hospital markets), with Novartis (on women healthcare leaders in India), with Novo Nordisk (on Indian pharmaceutical industry & health economics) and with Wockhardt, Jubilant, & Micro-Labs (on growth strategies and managerial economics). In addition he also co-created the executive teaching program on Management of Technology Innovation listed on The Economist. He is also co-chair of an ongoing innovative management program for doctors in India titled MPM-Cx, which is a joint initiative between IIM Ahmedabad and DailyRounds, a Bangalore based digital medical educational start-up.
In 2015, Chatterjee conceptualized and chaired the 1st India Conference on Innovation, Intellectual Property & Competition, a first of its kind international innovation policy conference in India supported by Qualcomm Inc. & Tata Trusts. This conference witnessed noted scholars on global institutions and innovation presenting their work and thoughts on Innovation in India, including David Teece, Tarun Khanna, Stuart Graham, Lee Branstetter, Kamal Saggi and Zorina Khan among others. In addition industry leaders and policy makers also presented their thoughts. In 2018, this conference reconvened at the Indian School of Business and Chatterjee was the co-chair in the 2018 version with prominent international scholars in innovation policy and the global economy presenting their work.
Chatterjee's deep passion about Global South healthcare markets and for democratizing education has also resulted in the first ever MOOC on healthcare markets in India in 2016 available through edX. He has also been a visiting faculty member at ESAMI Arusha Tanzania, University of Tokyo and IIM Visakhapatnam. He enjoys regularly contributing policy and managerial Op-Eds at outlets like Vox-EU, The Hill, Livemint, Economic Times, Times of India, India Abroad, DNA India, & Hindustan Times. During his spare time, Chatterjee is occupied with his family while dabbling in experimental cooking at their home kitchen.