Saumitra Jha

Professor Saumitra Jha is a professor in the political economy group at the Stanford Graduate School of Business,  and a Senior Fellow at the Center for Democracy, Development and Rule of Law in the Freeman-Spogli Institute for International Affairs (FSI).

He also convenes the Conflict and Polarization Lab within the Stanford King Center on Global Development and manages the Democratic Fragility and Conflict program at FSI.

His research focuses upon understanding the effectiveness of organizations and innovations that societies have developed to address the problems of violence and political risk in the past and to develop new lessons for contemporary policy.

He is affiliated as a professor, by courtesy, of the Stanford Departments of Economics and of Political Science, as a Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, and a Faculty Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.