Sujit “Bob” Chakravorti

Sujit “Bob” Chakravorti is a senior economist in the Financial Markets Group at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and has been analyzing retail and wholesale payment systems for over 20 years. He has published over 30 articles in industry, academic, and Federal Reserve publications including the Antitrust Bulletin, Journal of Money Credit and Banking, Journal of Payments Strategy and Systems, and the Review of Network Economics. Prior to joining the Federal Reserve System, he worked at KPMG as an international economist advising foreign governments on financial market policy. In addition, he has been a visiting scholar at De Nederlandsche Bank (Dutch central bank), the European University Institute, the International Monetary Fund, and the University of Granada.  He received a B.A. in economics and genetics from the University of California- Berkeley and M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from Brown University.