Suresh Naidu

Suresh Naidu is Jack Wang and Echo Ren Professor of Economics and Professor of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. He has a B.A. in Pure Mathematics from the University of Waterloo, an M.A. in Economics from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California at Berkeley. He was a Harvard Academy fellow from 2008-2010 and has been at Columbia since 2010.

Naidu works on political economy and historical labor markets. He has interests in the economic effects of democracy and non-democracy, monopsony in labor markets, the economics of American slavery, guest worker migration, and labor unions and labor organizing. He is external faculty at the Santa Fe Institute, a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and co-director of the Columbia Center on Political Economy.