Prof. Amrita Dhillon

Prof. Dhillon is a Professor of Political Economy in the Department of Political Economy at King’s College London. She is also a Research Group leader for Quantitative Political Economy. Prior to this, she served as a Professor at the University of Warwick, apart from being a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank, St. Louis, May 2012 and a Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton 2010-11. She received her PhD from State University of New York, Stony Brook in 1994. Her main fields of interest lie in Political Economy, Social Choice Theory, Public Economics and Development Economics. Prof. Dhillon has been awarded prestigious research grants such as Voting Over Distributed Ledgers (joint with computer scientists at King's College and University of Surrey) from the EPSRC, Research Fellow, Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton, 2010-11; Legal and Economic Aspects of Sovereign Default ESRC Grant 2006-08, Principal Investigator; Political Economy of Centre-State Transfers, RTDF grant, University of Warwick, 1999; Rotary Foundation grant, 1997.