Shatakshee Dhongde

Shatakshee Ramesh Dhongde is assistant professor at the School of Economics, Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, Georgia Institute of Technology. She has provided research papers to the several institutions including the International Monetary Fund and the World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER). Her work has also appeared in several academic journals including World Development.
Dhongde's research interests are in microeconomics and development economics and include inequality, growth, trade liberalization, poverty, and segregation.

Dhongde gained her degree in economics from the University of Pune, India (1997), her masters in economics from Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, also in Pune, India (1999), and her Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Riverside, in the United States (2005).

After completing her PhD, Dhongde remained at the University of California, Riverside for a further year as a lecturer. In 2006 she became assistant professor at Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York. Dhongde became assistant professor at Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta in 2011.

Dhongde was also a visiting scholar at the United Nations University-World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER) in Helsinki from June to September 2002.

• 2005 University of California, Riverside Graduate Research Award
• 2012 The Nancy and Richard Ruggles Research Prize presented by the International Association for Research in Income and Wealth (IARIW)

• "Five Ph.D. candidates receive graduate research awards". University of California, Riverside. 4 May 2005. Retrieved 4 June 2015. 
• Lovekin, Kris. "The Nancy and Richard Ruggles Memorial Fund". International Association for Research in Income and Wealth (IARIW). Retrieved 4 June 2015. 

• Danny Boston (moderator), Kirk Bowman, Michael L Best, Olga Shemyakina, Shatakshee Dhongde (2013). Poverty, Inequality, and Development (video). SOAR: Symposium on Opportunity and Access Research. Retrieved 4 June 2015.  MP4 download or view online. A workshop-style mini-retreat on common areas of research within Ivan Allen College (IAC), Georgia Institute of Technology.
• Shatakshee Dhongde, Olga Shemyakina and Margaret Kosal (14 October 2014). Technology, Development Economics, and Human Rights, October 3, 2014 (YouTube). Sam Nunn School of International Affairs @ Georgia Tech. Retrieved 4 June 2015.