Professor Siddhartha Bandyopadhyay is Professor of Economics, Director of the cross disciplinary Centre for Crime, Justice and Policing and leads the 21^st century transnational crime theme, one of the main themes of the Institute of Global Innovation, University of Birmingham. 

He is an internationally recognised economist in the field of political economy and public policy. He has a particular interest in the economics of crime and economic evaluation of policy. His research interests in this area includes game theoretic modelling of criminal behaviour, econometric (statistical) analysis of factors determining crime, cost benefit analysis of alternate interventions, and the impact of initiatives such as citizen reporting. He has played a lead role in the Better Policing Collaborative led by Professor Kane. Siddhartha is the lead economist on a number of projects that includes the evaluation of interventions related to the Vulnerability and Violent Crime Programme.