Dr Rohan Ravindra Gudibande is an economist whose interest lies in Development Economics and Political Economy. After completing his PhD from the Graduate Institute, Geneva, he pursued post-doctoral research at the Empirical Studies of Conflict Lab (Princeton University), the School of Public and International Affairs (Princeton University) and the Institute for the Study of Religion Economics and Society (Chapman University). Dr Gudibande has been closely involved with the policy world. He worked as an economist at the German Development Institute (DIE), Bonn. He has also consulted for UNCTAD, ILO, IMF and the Permanent Mission of India to the UN.

His current research aims to understand the outcomes and mechanisms of development in relation to events or processes driving labor markets, different conflicts, crime and social cohesion that organises individual incentives and behaviour, with the purpose of deriving clear insights for evaluating existing policies or design new policies. Methodologically, he adopts and refines state of the art inference and computational techniques to establish causal relations exploiting natural variations from policy or historical changes.

Dr Gudibande believes that development outcomes are intrinsically linked with politics, and this relationship needs to be rigorously and empirically disentangled within a multi-disciplinary analytical framework, drawing from disciplines like Political Science, Data Science and Psychology. Outside of his professional life, his interests include History of Religion, History of Science, Foreign Policy and Strategy, travel, and high intensity sports.