Ramaa Vasudevan joined the Economics department at Colorado State University 2007. Her Ph.D. in economics from New School University, New York, focused on the political economy of international trade and finance, while her M.Phil at the Centre for Development Studies, Trivandrum, India, was a study about the evolution of labor markets in colonial India. Her main research interests are in international finance , open economy macroeconomics and the political economy of development and finance.