Swati Dhingra (born 1980) is an Associate Professor of Economics at the

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and an external member of the

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's Monetary Policy Committee.

Early life and education

She hails from Saharanpur, Uttar Pradesh. Her parents moved to India during the 1947 partition and are into a small business of buying and selling shawls. She earned her undergraduate degree from

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, holds an MA from the Delhi School of Economics and obtained an MS and a PhD in Economics from the

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. She did post doctoral fellowship at Princeton University. She lives with her partner Islington, north London. She has been a prominent critic of

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