Ina Ganguli is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, a core faculty member of the UMass Computational Social Science Institute, and an affiliate of the Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard. Her research areas are labor economics, the economics of science and innovation, international development and economic history.  She was previously a U.S. Embassy Policy Specialist in Azerbaijan and Tajikistan, a Fulbright Scholar in Ukraine, and a Bundestag International Parliamentary Program Fellow in Germany.  Ina holds a PhD from Harvard University, a Masters in Public Policy from the University of Michigan and a Bachelor of Arts in Mathematical Methods in the Social Sciences from Northwestern University.