Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh (born 1966) is an American sociologist and urban ethnographer. He is a professor of sociology and African-American studies at Columbia University. In September 2016, he took a position at Facebook. He was a board member at Philadelphia-based nonprofit Public/Private Ventures until it disbanded on 31 July 2012. In his work, Venkatesh has documented criminal gangs and the drug trade, and has written about the dynamics of the underground economy including street prostitution, contributing his findings to the research of economics professor Steven Levitt.
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1966 (age 59) Chennai, India
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