Robin Varghese, Ph.D.

Dr. Varghese is a Senior Fellow and Research Director of the Political and Economic Research Council. He has worked extensively on issues of information privacy and security, data quality, credit reporting and credit reporting reform in the United States and abroad, media ownership, financial literacy and the use of non-financial data for widening credit access. Varghese has played a key role in research design the development of methodology for PERC's studies and has overseen PERC's research efforts in these areas. He is the co-author of many PERC studies on credit reporting and financial access. Varghese has worked on behalf of PERC with the Federal Trade Commission, the Government Accountability Office, and the offices of members of Congress on policy issues directly related to PERC's core research.

Dr. Varghese received his Ph.D. from Columbia University in political science, in comparative political economy. Prior to joining PERC, he worked as a senior researcher and Graduate Fellow at the Columbia Institute of Tele-Information (CITI) where he worked on issues of media concentration. Varghese has also worked for Institutional Investor Institute as a conference programmer, where he oversaw issues pertaining to the Y2K phenomenon and assessed survey results of the banks' and investment firms' technology policy. Varghese has published articles in top academic journals.