Nabanita Datta Gupta is Professor at Department of Economics and Business Economics at Aarhus University. She has served on the chairmanship of the Danish Economic Council (2020-2023). She is also a past member of the Danish Social Science Research council (2007-2012) and past executive committee member of the European Association of Labour Economists. She holds a PhD in Labor Economics from Cornell University (1992). She is affiliated with VIVE-The Danish Center for Social Science Research.

Nabanita Datta Gupta researches gender wage differentials, discrimination, childcare, education, retirement & pension systems, health economics, environmental economics and economic development. 

Nabanita Datta Gupta teaches Economic History (bachelor level, Economics department) and Public Management (bachelor level, Political Science department)

Current international research collaborations involve researchers from Cambridge University, Charles University, CERGE-EI, IIM-Bangalore, LUISS University, Sciences Po, University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy, University of Hawaii at Manoa, University of Siena and Washington and Lee University.  

Nabanita Datta Gupta contributes to the evaluation of grant applications for several research councils, including the DFF in Denmark, RCN in Norway, Swedish Research Council & FORTE in Sweden, and the Austrian Academy of Sciences, as well as occasionally for the NSF and ERC.