Seema Jayachandran
Director of RPDE, Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Princeton University
Seema Jayachandran is Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University. Prof. Jayachandran’s research focuses on environmental conservation, gender equality, health, and other microeconomic topics in developing countries.
Prof. Seema Jayachandran has a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from MIT, and a master's degree in physics and philosophy from the University of Oxford where she was a Marshall Scholar. She received her Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University.
Prior to joining Princeton, Prof. Seema Jayachandran taught at Northwestern University and Stanford University. She serves on the board of directors of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) and leads J-PAL's gender sector. Prof. Jayachandran is also co-director of the National Bureau of Economic Research's program in Development Economics and co-editor of American Economic Review: Insights. She also serves on CARE's board of directors.