Anusha Chari is a Professor of Economics and Finance at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  She is a Research Associate at the NBER, a CEPR research fellow, and a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. In 2024, she served on the U.S. President's Council of Economic Advisers. She chaired the American Economic Association’s Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession (2022–2024) and was associate chair for mentoring (2021–2022). Previously, she held faculty positions at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Harvard University, the University of Michigan, and UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business.  She was the Inaugural Director of the Modern Indian Studies Initiative at UNC-Chapel Hill, an advisor to the Indian Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council, and a member of an Advisory Group of Eminent Persons on G20 Issues. Her research is in open-economy macroeconomics and international finance.