Eswar Prasad is an American economist who serves as the Tolani Senior Professor of International Trade Policy at Cornell University. He is also a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, where he holds the New Century Chair in Economics. Prasad's academic background includes a B.
A. from the University of Madras in 1985, an M.A.
from Brown University in 1986, and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1992.