Aaron Ronnie Chatterji

At-a-Glance

Recipient of the 2017 Kauffman Prize Medal for Distinguished Research in Entrepreneurship
Chief Economist at OpenAI
Mark Burgess & Lisa Benson-Burgess Distinguished Professor of Business and Public Policy at Duke University
Served as White House CHIPS coordinator and Acting Deputy Director of the National Economic Council during the Biden administration
Served as Chief Economist of the U.S. Department of Commerce and Senior Economist at the White House Council of Economic Advisers
Co-authored "Can Business Save the Earth" and "The Role of Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Economic Growth"
Received his Ph.D. from the Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley

Biography

Aaron "Ronnie" Chatterji, Ph.D., serves as the first Chief Economist at OpenAI and holds the position of Mark Burgess & Lisa Benson-Burgess Distinguished Professor of Business and Public Policy at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business. He also holds a secondary appointment at Duke’s Sanford School of Public Policy and is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.