Swati Dhingra
{{Short description|Indian economist}}
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Swati Dhingra (born 1980) is an Associate Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics and an external member of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee.{{cite web |title=Dr Swati Dhingra |url=https://www.lse.ac.uk/economics/people/faculty/swati-dhingra |website=London School of Economics |access-date=23 September 2022}}{{cite web |title=Dr. Swati Dhingra |url=https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/about/people/swati-dhingra/biography |website=Bank of England |access-date=23 September 2022}}
Early life and education
She hails from Saharanpur, Uttar Pradesh. Her parents moved to India during the 1947 partition and are into a small business of buying and selling shawls.{{Cite news |last=Partington |first=Richard |date=2022-12-03 |title=Swati Dhingra of the Bank of England: ‘Are we going to end up deepening the recession?’ |url=https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/dec/03/swati-dhingra-bank-of-england-recession-inflation-interest-rate-uk-economy |access-date=2024-03-29 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}} She earned her undergraduate degree from Delhi University, holds an MA from the Delhi School of Economics and obtained an MS and a PhD in Economics from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.{{cite web |title=Chancellor appoints Dr. Swati Dhingra to the Monetary Policy Committee |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/news/chancellor-appoints-dr-swati-dhingra-to-the-monetary-policy-committee |website=gov.uk |access-date=23 September 2022}} She did post doctoral fellowship at Princeton University. She lives with her partner Islington, north London.
She has been a prominent critic of Brexit.{{cite news |title=Swati Dhingra to join Bank of England's monetary policy committee |url=https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/may/12/swati-dhingra-to-join-bank-of-england-monetary-policy-committee |website=The Guardian |date=12 May 2022 |access-date=23 September 2022 |last1=Inman |first1=Phillip }}
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