Swati Dhingra

Swati Dhingra (born 1980) is an Associate Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics and an external member of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee.^[1][2]

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.^[3] She earned her undergraduate degree from Delhi University, holds an MA from the Delhi School of Economics and obtained an MS and a PhD in Economics from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.^[4] She did post doctoral fellowship at Princeton University. She lives with her partner Islington, north London.^[3]

She has been a prominent critic of Brexit.^[5]