Shubha Chakravarty

International Development and Globalization
Columbia University, New York, NY

Shubha Chakravarty is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Economics. Her research interests center on issues of nutrition, food, and agriculture. She has studied and worked in several developing countries, including Chile, Mexico, India, and most recently Ethiopia and Kenya. In 2005, she worked with the office of the Prime Minister of Ethiopia to research price instability in domestic grain markets. In 2006, she conducted a household survey in Western Kenya looking at food insecurity and agricultural issues among HIV/AIDS afflicted households. She is also interested in the economic determinants of overnutrition and obesity in developed and developing countries. She holds a B.S. in Computer Science and a M.S. in Operations Research from Stanford University. Before joining Columbia, she worked as a software engineer at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC, where she implemented computational models of social and epidemiological systems.