Sunder Ramaswamy, Ph.D.
Sunder Ramaswamy is a professional economist, an educator, and an academic administrator with extensive experience both in India and the United States. He has been a faculty & administrator at Middlebury since 1990, and has had sabbaticals at the World Bank, Vanderbilt University, IFMR, & the Madras School of Economics in India(including 2 stints as Director). He was the founding Vice Chancellor of Krea University, an exciting new liberal arts and sciences university initiative, set up in Sri City, India (2017-2021). From 2009 – 2015, he was the President of the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, California (MIIS); He has co- authored and co-edited 4 books, written scores of articles, and delivered over 175 lectures all over the world on Globalization, Economic Development, Indian Economic Reforms and Economic Literacy; His research has been supported by Ford Foundation, SW Davis Foundation and USAID. He has also been a consultant to UNCTAD, UNIDO, UNU and the World Bank. He has had extensive Board service at a number of non-profit organizations and most recently was appointed Chairman Emeritus of The Asia Foundation. He was also recently appointed as an Ambassador for Indiaspora (www.indiaspora.org, the largest US based global nonprofit that aims to improve the success and impact of the Indian diaspora).
He has been featured in over 60 international media stories. His passion for teaching, his academic work, and his administrative accomplishments have been recognized with numerous honors and awards both in India and in the United States.
He is currently the Program Director of the International & Global Studies at Middlebury College and also serves on the President’s Task Force on “Middlebury’s approach to AI”. He is also currently working on a co-authored book manuscript on “Data Democracy and Development in India”.
