Sanjay Jain is a senior fellow at the University of Oxford with research interest in development economics.

[1] He was an assistant professor of economics at the University of Virginia from 2001 to 2009.

Before he was an assistant professor of economics and international affairs at the George Washington University from 1994 to 2001 and a lecturer in the department of economics at the Princeton University from 1993 to 1994.

[2] He obtained his PhD in economics from the Princeton University in 1995,[3] M.A.

(Honours) in Economics from St. Stephen's College, University of Delhi in 1986.