Shatakshee Dhongde, associate dean for academic affairs and professor of economics at the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, has been named treasurer and president-elect of the International Association for Review of Income and Wealth (IARIW). The association, founded in 1947, is one of the oldest and most prestigious organizations in its field.  

“I am honored and humbled to be selected as the president-elect of the IARIW and follow in the footsteps of the distinguished scholars who have led the association in the past,” said Dhongde. “I hope to serve the association by increasing its impact and attracting more younger scholars to the field of economic measurement.”  

The association, which has members in 80 countries, is dedicated to advancing understanding of income and wealth, particularly ways of measuring and analyzing national income, income distribution, and systems of economic and social accounting and their use for policy. 

Dhongde serves on the editorial board of the association’s flagship journal, the Review of Income and Wealth. She also has presented papers and organized sessions at many of the association’s conferences. In March 2025, she presented a paper on multidimensional inequality among the elderly in the United States at a special conference organized by the association in Tokyo. In her new role, she is helping organize the 39th IARIW General Conference, which will take place in Brussels, Aug. 24 – 28, 2026. The deadline to submit an abstract is Friday, Oct. 31.    

"Serving a well-known international association in this new role, will help bring greater visibility to the School of Economics at Georgia Tech,” said Dhongde. “I am encouraging my colleagues to participate in IARIW’s conferences as they attract scholars from many different fields in economics around the central idea of economic measurement.”