Amit Khandelwal is the Jerome A. Chazen Professor of Global Business at Columbia Business School, and the Director of the Jerome A. Chazen Institute for Global Business. His research focuses on the link between international trade and economic development. Amit is Co-Editor of the Review of Economics and Statistics, and holds affiliations at the National Bureau of Economic Research, International Growth Centre (IGC), and is a term member at the Council on Foreign Relations.His worked as been funded by the National Science Foundation, the IGC, and by Private Enterprise Development in Low Income Countries (PEDL). He teaches the core Managerial Economics, an elective course on emerging markets, and has taught international seminars on the Indian, Chinese, and Myanmar economies. Amit received a PhD in Economics from Yale University and did his undergraduate education in economics and mathematics at Northwestern University.