Aaron "Ronnie" Chatterji

Aaron Chatterji, Ph.D., is a fellow at the Center for American Progress. His research focuses on innovation policy, entrepreneurship and small business issues, and corporate social responsibility. Chatterji is an assistant professor at Duke University and received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley.

Chatterji has received numerous grants and awards for his research and teaching, including the Ewing Marion Kauffman Dissertation Fellowship, The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) Research fellowship for his work in Ghana, and the outstanding graduate student instructor award at the Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley. He has received research grants from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, the Center for Responsible Business (Berkeley), and the Center for Sustainable Enterprise (UNC-Chapel Hill). He has presented his academic research at several different conferences, including presentations in Europe, Asia, and Africa.

Chatterji was a co-founder of the South Asian Political Alliance (SAPA) in the San Francisco Bay Area, which grew out of South Asians for Kerry (SAKI) a group that raised over $1 million for the Kerry campaign in 2004. He was also chosen to participate in the Washington Leadership Program sponsored by the India Abroad Center for Political Awareness (IACPA) in 1999.

He graduated with distinction from Cornell University with an undergraduate degree in economics and international relations, and has previously worked at Goldman Sachs & Company, The Harvard Institute for International Development, Merrill Lynch, and the Office of Congressman Eliot Engel (D-NY 17th ).