Maitreesh Ghatak is Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics, and a Fellow of the British Academy. He is Co-Editor of Economica, having formerly served as the Editor-in Chief of the Journal of Development Economics, Managing Editor of the Review of Economic Studies, and Co-Editor of the Economics of Transition. He is the Director of the Development Economics research programme at the Suntory Toyota International Centre for Economics and Related Disciplines (STICERD). He previously taught at the University of Chicago, and is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research and is a member of the Board of Directors, as well as Senior Fellow of the Bureau for Research in Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD). His work focuses mainly on issues in development economics, public economics and economics of organisations. He was educated at Presidency College, Calcutta (Bachelor’s in Economics), Delhi School of Economics (Master’s in Economics), and Harvard University (PhD in Economics).