Pooja Sharma has joined the GEG team as an Oxford-Princeton Global Leaders Fellow to work on research related to global trade governance. She is currently based at the Woodrow Wilson School for Public and International Affairs, Princeton University. Her research interests include the political economy of trade policy, regional trade agreements, foreign aid, trade costs, agricultural policy, trade in services and South Asia. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics, an M.A. in Economics and a B.A. (Hons) in Economics. She is a national of India.

Pooja Sharma was previously a Fellow at the Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS), New Delhi, Visiting Research Fellow, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), New Delhi and Senior Consultant, National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER), New Delhi. She has also been a consultant for the Water and Sanitation Program (WSP) of the World Bank in South Asia. She is a member of the Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP), Purdue University.

Selected publications:

Political economy of conditional aid in a federal economy, Review of Development Economics, 12 (2), 327-338, 2008.

Agriculture in The World Trade and Development Report, Oxford University Press: New Delhi, 2007.