A CIRANO Associate Researcher and Fellow since 2011, Raja Kali is Professor in the Department of Economics at the Sam M. Walton College of Business of the University of Arkansas. He is also Holder of the ConocoPhillips Chair in International Economics and Business and Chair of the Department of Economics.

Holding a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Maryland at College Park, his research has examined the impact of globalization on international trade, financial crises and economic growth.

He has been a visiting research scholar at the Indian School of Business, Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, University of Melbourne, and at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He was a visiting professor of international business at HEC Montréal in 2012.