Suresh Naidu

Suresh Naidu is an Associate Professor in Economics and International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. He previously served as a Harvard Academy Junior Scholar at Harvard University and as an Instructor in Economics and Political Economy at the University of California, Berkeley. Professor Naidu holds a BMath from the University of Waterloo, a master’s degree in economics from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and a PhD in economics from the University of California, Berkeley.

His primary research areas include economic effects of political transitions, economic history of slavery and labor institutions, international migration, and economic applications of natural language processing.