Open to Princeton University alumni and guests attending Reunions, students, staff, and faculty.
What does the current Trump administration (Trump 2.0) mean for India? Join us for an insightful panel discussion on the evolving dynamics between the United States and India under Trump 2.0. This panel will examine the potential implications of recently proposed U.S. tariffs on India’s economic growth, trade relations, and industrial strategies. The U.S. is also home to a large and influential Indian diaspora community. What are the impacts of new polices on Indian immigrants, and how can (or should) the Indian Diaspora community frame a response? This discussion will explore the multi-faceted challenges and opportunities for India and Indians under Trump 2.0.
Speakers
Shoumitro Chatterjee *18 is an Assistant Professor of International Economics. His research interests are at the intersection of development economics and international trade. One strand of his research focuses on trade and market power in the agricultural supply chains. The second strand of his research focuses on globalization, development, and structural change. Chatterjee is a Research Affiliate of the Center for Economic Policy Research and a Non-Resident Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study of India at the University of Pennsylvania. Before joining SAIS, he was on the faculty at the Pennsylvania State University and Georgetown University. In addition, he served as an Economist in the Office of the Chief Economic Advisor of India during 2015-16. Chatterjee received his Ph.D. in Economics from Princeton University in 2018 and was an INET-Postdoc at the University of Cambridge in 2018-19. He earned his Bachelor of Arts (with honors) in Economics from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi, in 2009 and subsequently completed an M.A. in economics from the Delhi School of Economics in 2011. Chatterjee was awarded the International Economics Research Annual Award by the EXIM Bank in 2019 and was named one of India’s economic thinkers of the next decade by The Print in 2024.
Anu Ramaswami is the Sanjay Swani ’87 Professor of India Studies and Director of the M.S. Chadha Center for Global India at the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, and Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the High Meadows Environmental Institute. She is an interdisciplinary environmental engineer and leads Princeton’s Urban Nexus Lab. She has pioneered sustainable urban systems science and knowledge co-production for developing low-carbon, healthy, and equitable cities. Her work explores how eight key sectors – water, energy, food, buildings, mobility, connectivity, waste management, and green/public spaces – shape human and environmental wellbeing, from local to global scales. Ramaswami’s work integrates environmental science and engineering, industrial ecology, public health, and public affairs, with a human-centered and systems focus. She is the lead principal investigator and director of the National Science Foundation (NSF)-supported Sustainable Healthy Cities Network, and serves on the United Nations Environment Programme’s International Resource Panel. She is the author of more than 100 peer-reviewed articles, published in leading journals such as Science, Nature Climate Change, Nature Sustainability, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), Environmental Science & Technology, and Environmental Research Letters.
Karthik Sastry ’16 is an Assistant Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University, in the Department of Economics and the School for Public and International Affairs. He studies macroeconomics. Two specific themes in his work are understanding the role of bounded rationality and social dynamics in business-cycle fluctuations and modeling how societies adapt to climate change through policy changes and technological innovation. He received a Ph.D. in Economics from MIT in 2022 and was a Prize Fellow in Economics, History, and Politics at Harvard University in the 2022-23 academic year.