Dr. Shatakshee Dhongde is a Professor of Economics in the School of Economics at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Her research focuses on the measurement of poverty, inequality, and deprivation. Notably, she was among the first scholars to provide consistent estimates of multidimensional poverty in the United States.

Dr. Dhongde’s research has been published in leading academic journals, including the Review of Income and Wealth, the Journal of Inequality, the Journal of Health Economics, and World Development. She is a Fellow at the Society for Economic Measurement and a Research Affiliate with the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

A dedicated educator and scholar, Dr. Dhongde is a recipient of Georgia Tech’s prestigious Ivan Allen Jr. Legacy Award alongside multiple university-wide teaching honors. Her long-standing association with the International Association for Research in Income and Wealth (IARIW) began in 2012, when she was honored with the Nancy and Richard Ruggles Prize. She earned her Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, Riverside.