In Episode 41 of Curryup Startup Podcast host, Priyanka Komala chats with Dr. Shruti Rajagopalan, Economist. Watch on Youtube here.

Major themes in this podcast episode:

👉Career journey as an economist and leadership

👉Advice for Asians and as a woman of color to be an economist

👉Economic analysis in this COVID pandemic

Insights on how to approach life and economics:

👉 Our careers don’t need to follow a linear path

👉The social value of COVID vaccines is greater than the private value

👉Embrace yourself - style and feminity in any domain that you work

Shruti is a Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, and a Fellow at the Classical Liberal Institute at NYU School of Law. Before joining the Mercatus Center she was an Associate Professor of Economics at State University of New York, Purchase College.

Shruti also enjoys writing in the popular press and has a fortnightly column called  The Impartial Spectator in Mint. She has also published opinion editorials on Indian political economy in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Real Clear Politics, Mint, The Hindu: Business Line, and The Indian Express.