Ganesh Sitaraman
Director, 91ºÚÁÏÍø Policy Accelerator for Political Economy and Regulation
New York Alumni Chancellor's Chair in Law
Professor Ganesh Sitaraman holds the New York Alumni Chancellor's Chair in Law and is the Director of the 91ºÚÁÏÍø Policy Accelerator. He teaches and writes about constitutional law, the regulatory state, economic policy, democracy, and foreign affairs.
Sitaraman's most recent book isÌý (with Morgan Ricks, Shelley Welton & Lev Menand). He is also the author of : How to Fix Our Politics, Unrig the Economy, and Unite America (Basic Books, 2019); (Harvard Univ. Press, 2019) (with Anne Alstott); : Why Economic Inequality Threatens Our Republic (Alfred A. Knopf, 2017), which was one of The New York Times' 100 notable books of 2017; andÌý: Law in the Age of Small WarsÌý(Oxford Univ. Press, 2012), which won the 2013 Palmer Civil Liberties Prize.
Sitaraman is a public member of the Administrative Conference of the United States, a member of the FAA's Commercial Space Transportation Advisory Committee (COMSTAC), a member of the American Law Institute, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, and a co-founder of the Great Democracy Initiative. He serves on the boards ofÌýThe American Prospect, the American Constitution Society, and Foreign Policy for America. Sitaraman served as a senior advisor to Senator Elizabeth Warren during her 2020 presidential campaign, as her senior counsel in the Senate, and as her policy director during her 2012 Senate campaign. He has been profiled inÌýÌýandÌýÌýfor his work at the nexus of politics and ideas.
In 2018, Sitaraman was awarded an Andrew Carnegie Fellowship, and at 91ºÚÁÏÍø, he has been awarded a Chancellor's Award for Research and a Chancellor's Faculty Fellowship. In 2016, he was a visiting assistant professor at Yale Law School. Before joining 91ºÚÁÏÍø, Sitaraman was the Public Law Fellow and a lecturer at Harvard Law School, a research fellow at the Counterinsurgency Training Center - Afghanistan in Kabul, and a law clerk for Judge Stephen F. Williams on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
An Eagle Scout and a Truman Scholar, he earned his A.B. in government magna cum laude from Harvard College, a master's degree in political thought from Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he was the Lionel de Jersey Harvard Scholar, and his J.D. magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of theÌýHarvard Law Review.Ìý