Dr Samyukta Bhupatiraju teaches Macroeconomics at the School of Interwoven Arts and Sciences. Her expertise lies in Development Economics, Applied Econometrics, and Network Economics. She holds a PhD in Economics from United Nations University-MERIT and Maastricht University, an Advanced Certificate from the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, and an MA in Economics from the University of Hyderabad. Her research focuses on the geographic dimensions of growth and development, as well as the intersection of finance and development. Previously, she served as an Assistant Professor at Tata Institute of Social Sciences and an ICSSR Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Hyderabad