I am Mamidipudi Ramakrishna Sharan, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of Maryland, College Park.

My research centres around questions in development economics and political economy. I have worked as a researcher and policy economist, with research organizations, state governments and the central government in India. I was awarded my PhD from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government in May 2020. Subsequently, I was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Global Development