Who is Ritwik Banerjee? IIM Bangalore Professor Appointed Associate Editor of OR; all you need to know

Ritwik Banerjee, Professor and Chair of Economics at IIM Bangalore (IIM-B), has been appointed Associate Editor of the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (JEBO), an ABDC A* journal.

JEBO publishes theoretical and empirical research on economic decision-making, organizational processes, human behavior and economic change.

Here is a look at Ritwik Banerjee, his academic background and achievements:

Banerjee has been a professor at IIM Bangalore for over a decade. He holds a bachelor’s degree in economics and a master’s degree in economics from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU). He earned a second master’s degree from Iowa State University in 2009 and later completed a PhD in economics from Aarhus University in Denmark.

In 2009, Banerjee started working as a researcher at ICRIER. In 2013, he worked as a consultant at the World Bank Group, and in 2015 he became a visiting scholar in the field of economics at Harvard University. From 2014 to 2015, he was a postdoctoral researcher at Aarhus University. He later joined the Indian Institute of Management in Calcutta as an Assistant Professor. In 2019, he became a visiting researcher at the World Institute for Development Economics Research at the United Nations University. He later became a Fulbright-Nehru Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley.

He has been with IIM Bangalore since 2016 and has worked in various roles. Between 2016 and 2019, he worked as an assistant professor. From 2019 to 2025, he was an associate professor, and since November 2025 he has been a professor.

His research lies at the intersection of behavioral and development economics with extensive use of experimental methods. His work deals with issues of corruption, inequality, education and discrimination.

His broader research interests include behavioral economics, social preferences, social norms, social identity, status and reference dependence. It also deals with public economics, development economics, and public policy, and applies psychological insights to issues of corruption, affirmative action, self-esteem, competition, and gender.