Sujai J. Shivakumar
Senior Program Officer

Since joining the National Academies in 2001, Dr. Shivakumar has helped to prepare, and disseminate the STEP Board’s research on innovation and entrepreneurship. This portfolio includes a major review of high technology public-private partnerships in the United States, an analysis of the drivers of productivity growth in the New Economy, and a comparative assessment of national innovation policies in a world where advanced research and development is increasingly global. He has also contributed to the National Academies major assessment of the Small Business Innovation Research Program (SBIR). A political economist by training, Dr. Shivakumar received his doctorate in economics from George Mason University in 1996. His dissertation examined how the formal and informal rules that govern how we choose among public policies themselves emerge and adapt within constraints. Subsequent post doctoral research at Indiana University’s Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis applied this institutional approach to understanding the political economy of development and development cooperation. Previous to his work at the National Academies, Dr. Shivakumar served as a consultant on institutional development to the United Nations Development Programme, the Swedish International Development Agency, and Action Aid, a British non-governmental organization. His recent publications include The Constitution of Development, Crafting Capabilities for Self-Governance, published by Macmillan, and The Samaritans’ Dilemma, The Political Economy of Development Aid, coauthored with Elinor Ostrom, Clark Gibson, and Krister Anderson, and published by Oxford University Press.

Email: sshivakumar at nas dot edu
Telephone: 202.334.1337
Address: Keck Center 571, 500 Fifth Street, N.W., Washington, DC 20001