Santanu Chatterjee

Santanu Chatterjee is the Interim Dean of the University of Georgia Terry College of Business and the Dr. Harold A. Black Distinguished Professor of Economics. He came to UGA in 2001 and has served as the Terry College Associate Dean for Graduate Programs and Director of the Full-Time MBA & MS Business Analytics programs.

Under his tenure, Terry’s Full-Time MBA program has achieved international recognition. Since being named director in 2014, he has led the program to a No. 1 ranking in value for the money globally by the Financial Times in 2024 and 2025. In separate rankings, the program placed No. 11 among public business schools by U.S. News and World Report, the eighth consecutive year the survey ranked the UGA MBA among the top 20 full-time programs.

Interim Dean Chatterjee has earned several honors for teaching, research, and service. In 2018, he was named a Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor, UGA’s highest award for instruction. He received the Richard Reiff Award for Campus Internationalization in 2021 to recognize his exceptional contributions to global education at UGA. He has received the George P. Swift Award for Outstanding Teaching in Undergraduate Economics three times and Terry’s Hugh O. Nourse Outstanding MBA Teacher Award in 2018.

Chatterjee has published extensively on economics in refereed journals and books. He is frequently invited to present his research at national and international conferences and seminars.

Chatterjee has served UGA as a member of the University Council and its Educational Affairs, Program Review and Assessment, and University Libraries committees. He is a member of the UGA Teaching Academy and a fellow of the Southeastern Conference Academic Leadership Development Program. Chatterjee earned his doctorate in economics from the University of Washington, his master’s in economics from Delhi University, and his bachelor’s in economics from the University of Calcutta.

• PhD, Economics, University of Washington, 2001
• MA, Economics, Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University (India), 1996
• BS, Economics, St. Xavier’s College, University of Calcutta (India), 1994

• Economic Growth
• International Economics
• Development Economics

Journal Articles

• Chatterjee, S., Lebesmuehlbacher, T., Narayanan, A. 2025. Road Infrastructure and Skill Premium: Evidence from Indian Manufacturing. Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 174, 103408.
• S. Chatterjee, M. Kelly, and S. Turnovsky. 2022. Foreign Aid, Public Investment and the Informal Economy. Economic Inquiry 60, 174-201.
• S. Chatterjee, T. Lebesmuehlbacher, A. Narayanan. 2021. How Productive is Public Investment? Evidence from Formal and Informal Production in India. 2021. Journal of Development Economics 151: 10265.
• S. Chatterjee, S. Turnovsky. 2018. Remittances and the Informal Economy. Journal Of Development Economics, 133:66-83.
• B. Bahadir, S. Chatterjee, T. Lebesmuehlbacher. 2018. The Macroeconomic Consequences of Remittances. Journal Of International Economics, 111:214-232.
• S. Chatterjee, J. Gibson, F. Rioja. 2017. Optimal Public Debt Redux. Journal Of Economic Dynamics And Control, 83:162-174.
• S. Chatterjee. A. Mursagulov. 2016. Fiscal Policy and the Real Exchange Rate. Macroeconomic Dynamics, 20:1742-1770.
• D. Balasubramaniam, S. Chatterjee, D. Mustard. 2014. Got Water? Social Divisions and Access to Public Goods in Rural India. Economica, 81:140-160.
• S. Chatterjee, S. Turnovsky. 2012. Infrastructure and Inequality. European Economic Review, 56:1730-1745.
• M. Atolia, S. Chatterjee, S.J. Turnovsky. 2012. Growth and Inequality: Dependence on the Time Path of Productivity Increases (and Other Structural Changes). Journal Of Economic Dynamics And Control,36:331-348.
• S. Chatterjee, M. Morshed. 2011. Infrastructure Provision and Macroeconomic Performance. Journal Of Economic Dynamics And Control, 35:1151-1386.
• S. Chatterjee, S. Ghosh. 2011. The Dual Nature of Public Goods and Congestion: The Role of Fiscal Policy Revisited. Canadian Journal Of Economics, 44:1471-1496.
• M. Atolia, S. Chatterjee, S. Turnovsky. 2010. How Misleading is Linearization? Evaluating the Dynamics of the Neoclassical Growth Model. Journal Of Economic Dynamics And Control, (34):1550-1571.
• S. Chatterjee. 2007. Should the Private Sector Provide Public Capital?. Macroeconomic Dynamics, (11):318-346.
• S. Chatterjee and S.J. Turnovsky. 2007. Foreign Aid and Economic Growth: The Role of Flexible Labor Supply. Journal Of Development Economics, (84):507-533.
• S. Chatterjee. 2005. Capital Utilization, Economic Growth, and Convergence. Journal Of Economic Dynamics And Control, (29 (12)):2093-2124.
• S. Chatterjee, G. Sakoulis, and S.J. Turnovsky. 2003. Unilateral Capital Transfers, Public Investment, and Economic Growth. European Economic Review, (47 (6)):1077-1103.

• Associate Editor, Economic Inquiry, 2018–present
• Associate Editor, Journal of Macroeconomics, 2016–2023

• Richard Reiff Internationalization Award, Office of Global Engagement, UGA, 2022
• Kamerschen-Hampton Research Award, Department of Economics, UGA, 2021
• SEC Academic Leadership Development Fellow, 2019-2021
• Hugh O. Nourse Outstanding MBA Teacher Award, University of Georgia, Terry College of Business, 2018
• Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor, University of Georgia, 2018
• University of Georgia Teaching Academy, Class of 2018
• Sarah H. Moss Research Fellowship, Sarah H. Moss Foundation, 2011
• Outstanding Teaching Award, University of Georgia, Terry College of Business, 2010
• George P. Swift Award for Outstanding Teaching in Undergraduate Economics, Department of Economics, University of Georgia, 2003, 2006, and 2009
• Poverty and the Economy Grant, UGARF, University of Georgia, 2007
• University of Georgia Research Foundation (UGARF) Grant, University of Georgia, 2003

• Associate Dean for Inclusive Excellence, International and Master’s Programs, 2021–2025
• Director, Full-Time MBA Program, 2014–2025
• Director, MS Business Analytics Program, 2018–2025
• Department of Economics, Graduate Coordinator, 2009–2013

• Visiting Scholar, University of Hamburg, Germany, Department of Economics, 2008 to 2014
• Visiting Scholar, International Monetary Fund, Research Department, November 2005
• Visiting Scholar, University of California-Berkeley, Department of Economics, January–April 2000