Anusree Mitra is an associate professor and chair of the marketing department in the Kogod School of Business at the American University in Washington, D.C. She teaches marketing management, consumer behavior and marketing research. Her research focuses on consumer perceptions of marketing information such as advertising, nutritional labeling and other mandatory disclosures, and their public policy implications.

She has published scholarly articles in the Journal of Consumer Research, International Journal of Research in Marketing, Journal of Public Policy and Marketing, Marketing Letters and Journal of Business Research. She serves as a visiting scientist at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Science and Applied Nutrition, and is involved in FDA-sponsored studies that examine consumer use of nutrition information on food labels.

Mitra holds a Ph.D. in business from the University of Florida, an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management and a BS in economics from the University of Calcutta.