Edward Kutsoati is an Associate Professor and Director of the Undergraduate Program in Economics at Tufts University. He has also held visiting positions at the Department of Economics in the University of Ghana, and the Institute for Economic Affairs, a public policy think-tank in Accra, Ghana.

His research interests are primarily on applied microeconomics. He has done and continues to work on research papers that span topics on incentives in organizations, financial markets and more recently, on microfinance. His published work include "Learning-by-doing and Product Innovation by a Durable-Good Monopolist" (with J. Zabojnik) in International Journal of Industrial Organization; "Debt-Contingent Inflation Targets and Contracts" in the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control; "Who Herds?" (with D. Bernhardt and M. Campello) in the Journal of Financial Economics; "Crop Price-Indemnified Loans for Farmers in Rural Ghana" (with M. McMillan, D. Karlan and C. Udry), (to be published in the Journal of Risk and Insurance), and "The Evolution of Managerial Expertise" (with D. Bernhardt and E. Hughson), published in the American Economic Review.

Kutsoati received his bachelor's degree in Mathematics and Economics from the University of Ghana in 1990, and a PhD in Economics from Queen's University, Canada in 1999.