Prithwiraj (Raj) Choudhury is a Professor in the Department of Management at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and a globally recognised expert on the Future of Work. Prior to LSE, he served on the faculties at Wharton and Harvard Business School. In 2023, Forbes included him in their Future of Work 50 list, and in 2024 he was included in the TIME-Charter 30 list of thought leaders shaping the future of work. He is also an Associate Editor at Management Science.

He studies how technology is changing where we work and how we work and has pioneered research on how ‘Work from anywhere’ (WFA) affects workers, organisations, communities, and smaller towns. He also studies the impact of AI on organisations and how AI and automation can help both desk workers and deskless workers work from anywhere. His research has been published in leading academic journals such as Organization Science, Management Science, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Development Economics, The Review of Economics and Statistics and The Review of Financial Studies. His book, ‘The World is Your Office’ was published in April 2025 and became a National Bestseller in the United States.

His research has been cited by the BBC, CNN, Financial Times, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Forbes, Fortune, The Economist, Freakonomics, Al Jazeera, El País, and Times of India, among other outlets. He has delivered keynotes and provided advice on the future of work to organisations as diverse as Atlassian, the British Parliament, the Council on Foreign Relations, Deel, Google, ITC, Young Presidents’ Organization, and the United Nations. Prior to academia, he worked at McKinsey & Company and Microsoft. He obtained his doctorate from Harvard and earned degrees from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur and Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta.

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