Nandita Dasgupta

At Johns Hopkins, Nandita Dasgupta is a lecturer for the MS in Applied Economics program. She has been associated with the Advanced Academic Programs division since 2009, teaching Cost Benefit Analysis and Statistics.

Dasgupta is also a faculty member at the University of Maryland Baltimore County and has experience teaching Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, Econometrics, Managerial Economics, Economics of Strategic Interaction, Cost Benefit Analysis, and Linear Programming.

She has received a Best Teacher Award in economics eleven times and Teaching Excellence Awards at UMBC.

An active researcher, Dasgupta is currently involved in research on the nature, causes, and consequences of Foreign Direct Investment outflows to and from developing countries. From 2002 to 2004, she was a consultant with the Columbia Earth Institute at Columbia University and co-authored working papers on FDI inflows in India. She has received best paper awards at economics research conferences and her research studies have been published in refereed journals and included in books published by Palgrave Macmillan and Cambridge University Press.

Dasgupta received her PhD in economics from Calcutta University, India.