Ritwik Banerjee, professor and chairperson of the economics area at IIM Bangalore, has been appointed associate editor of the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (JEBO), Mint reported. The journal is ranked A* on the ABDC journal quality list.
JEBO publishes research on how people make economic decisions, how organisations work, human behaviour and economic change.
What he studies
Banerjee works where behavioural and development economics meet, often using experiments. His research covers corruption, inequality, education and discrimination, and how psychology shapes questions such as affirmative action, self-confidence, competition and gender.
His journey
- Bachelor's and master's degrees in economics from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU).
- A second master's from Iowa State University in 2009, and a PhD in economics from Aarhus University in Denmark.
- Research associate at ICRIER from 2009, consultant at the World Bank Group in 2013, and postdoctoral fellow at Aarhus University in 2014-15.
- Visiting scholar at Harvard University, at the United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research in 2019, and at the University of California, Berkeley, as a Fulbright-Nehru scholar.
- Assistant professor at IIM Calcutta before joining IIM Bangalore in 2016.
At IIM Bangalore, he was assistant professor from 2016 to 2019 and associate professor from 2019 to 2025, and has been a full professor since November 2025.