Ameet Morjaria

Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University

Ameet Morjaria is an Associate Professor of Managerial Economics & Decision Sciences at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. Prior to joining Kellogg, he was a Junior Scholar of Harvard Academy's Weatherhead Centre for International Affairs and a Giorgio Ruffolo Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Sustainability Science Program at the Centre for International Development, Harvard Kennedy School. Dr Morjaria completed his PhD in Economics from the London School of Economics & Political Sciences and he is a research affiliate of the NBER, BREAD, CEPR and the IGC. His research interests are in development economics, organizational economics, and political economy across several countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (Burundi, DR Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan and Uganda). His current research focuses on understanding the role of commodity exchanges, changes in firm performance due to acquisitions, industrial policy in emerging markets, and the political economy of resource management in weakly institutionalized economies.