Ritwika Sen is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. She is also a Visiting Scholar at the Global Poverty Research Lab and a member of the Collaborative Research Center on Rationality and Competition. Her research focuses on topics at the intersection of organizational and development economics.

Ritwika obtained a PhD in Managerial Economics and Strategy from Northwestern University (Kellogg) in 2024. Prior to her PhD, she worked as a Country Economist for the International Growth Centre in Uganda and as an Overseas Development Institute Fellow at the Ministry of Agriculture and Animal Resources in Rwanda.