Economist • Activist • Curious Thinker

Anandarupa Dhar

Anandarupa Dhar is an economist, student activist and researcher. She completed both her B.Sc. (Honours) and M.Sc. in Economics from Presidency University, Kolkata. During her time there she served as Unit President of the Students’ Federation of India (SFI). She worked as a Research Assistant at the Centre for Development Studies, Trivandrum before joining doctoral research at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay). Her research interests are spatial econometrics, organizational behaviour, labour economics and productivity. She co-authored “Do Employees Matter?” with Sneha Sutradhar (Oikonomica, Spring 2025). She has demonstrated English-language proficiency and is committed to rigorous, human-centred economic inquiry.