Dr. Sanjay Kathuria is a visiting expert for South Asia at USIP.

Prior to USIP, he worked for over 27 years at the World Bank, and for a decade at the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations in New Delhi. He was a 2021-22 fellow at the Wilson Center. He is a pre-eminent thinker and commentator on economic development and integration in South Asia. His research interests and writings have focused on South Asia, economic growth and development, trade and globalization, regional integration, the economics of small states, and gender issues, among others.

He holds a doctorate in economics from Oxford University and a master’s in economics from the Delhi School of Economics.

Apart from his work with USIP, Kathuria is an adjunct professor at Georgetown University and Ashoka University. He is also a visiting senior fellow at the Centre for Social and Economic Progress in New Delhi, a global fellow at the Wilson Center, and a non-resident senior fellow at the Institute of South Asian Studies in Singapore.

Apart from many books and reports published at the World Bank, his writings have featured in Foreign Policy, Hindustan Times, Indian Express, The Wire, Daily FT (Sri Lanka), Business Standard, among others.

He is currently working on a new book on the future of South Asia.