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Bhaskar Chakravorti

Dean of Global Business

Professor of the Practice

Executive Director, Institute for Business in the Global Context

Chair, Digital Planet

The Fletcher School at Tufts University

Tufts Fletcher dean who studies how digital technology and AI reshape economies and power in 125 countries.

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Bhaskar Chakravorti, Dean of Global Business at The Fletcher School, Tufts University.

Biography

Bhaskar

  • Artificial intelligence
  • Digital economy
  • Geopolitics of technology
  • Global business

Bhaskar Chakravorti is the Dean of Global Business at The Fletcher School at Tufts University, a Professor of the Practice, and the founding executive director of Fletcher’s Institute for Business in the Global Context. He chairs Digital Planet, a research program on how digital technologies affect lives and livelihoods in 125 countries, and launched IDEA 2030, which studies how digital innovation and artificial intelligence can drive inclusive growth and productivity.

He was a partner at McKinsey & Company, where he led the Innovation and Global Forces practices, and taught at Harvard Business School. He writes regular columns for Foreign Policy, Harvard Business Review and The Indian Express, is the author of The Slow Pace of Fast Change and co-edited Defeating Disinformation. He holds a PhD in economics from the University of Rochester.

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Why this question

With Yasheng Huang, Chakravorti takes on US–China AI competition: where scientific cooperation with China should end and restrictions meant to protect national security should begin.

Upcoming appearance

Boston Debate Showcase

WhenNovember 17, 2026

WhereLaugh Boston, 425 Summer Street, Boston, MA

Featured session. US–China AI Competition: Security, Innovation, and Cooperation

Yasheng Huang, professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management.
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Featured session. US–China AI Competition: Security, Innovation, and Cooperation

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