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  • Shatakshee Dhongde

Dr. Shatakshee Dhongde is a Professor of Economics at Georgia Tech. She obtained her Ph.D. from the University of California, Riverside. Her research focuses on the economics of poverty. She was one of the first scholars to provide consistent estimates of multidimensional poverty in the United States. To date, she has published more than 20 refereed journal articles and book chapters and has presented her research at several national and international forums including the World Bank and the United
Nations.

Dr. Dhongde is the recipient of Dean George C. Griffin Faculty of the Year Award (2022), Mary S. and Richard B. Inman, Jr. Faculty Excellence Award (2021), and Ivan Allen Jr. Legacy Award (2019). She is the President-elect of the International Association of Review of Income and Wealth (IARIW), a Fellow of the Society for Economic Measurement and a Research Affiliate with the Institute of Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She serves on the Editorial Board of the Review of Income and Wealth and on the Governing Board of the Shepherd Higher Education Consortium on Poverty (SHECP). Her work has been featured in media outlets such as the BBC and the NPR. Since 2021, she serves as the Associate Dean of Academic Affairs at the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts at Georgia Tech.

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