I am Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics of the London School of Economics. Earlier I was in the faculty of the Department of Economics at the University of Chicago after completing my PhD from Harvard University. I am an elected Fellow of the Econometric Society, an elected Fellow of the British Academy, a Fellow of the International Economic Association, and Research Fellow at research networks such as CEPR, BREAD, IFS, CAGE, the India Policy Forum, and a founder member of ThReD, a research network of theoretical research in development economics. I am an editor of Economica, having served in the past as editors of the Review of Economic Studies and the Journal of Development Economics.