Parijat Chakrabarti is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Erb Institute for Global Sustainable Enterprise at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

He is interested in how innovation ecosystems and market institutions can be designed to sustain long-term social and ecological well-being. For his doctoral work, he examined these questions in the context of food systems in East Africa as the region grapples with the effects of climate change, uneven globalization, and rapid technology uptake. As part of his practice, he has worked with various development organizations including the World Bank, FSD Kenya, and the Busara Center for Behavioral Economics. Beyond research, he is interested in art and photography as a way of communicating. See some of his work here.

Parijat holds a PhD in Sociology from Princeton University and a BA in Economics and Sociology from UC Berkeley. Prior to graduate school, he worked various jobs including at a research unit at ETH Zürich, on a dairy farm in the Argentine pampas, and for a studio photographer back home in California.

Click here to view Parijat’s CV.