Sharmistha Bagchi-Sen is a Professor of Geography at the State University of New York at Buffalo. She received her PhD from the University of Georgia in 1989. Her research has focused on multinationals and foreign direct investment, export market development by small firms, producer services, innovation and collaboration in high technology industry, the biotechnology industry in the United States, and labour market issues in producer services and information technology. She currently serves as the editor of The Professional Geographer and is a member of the editorial board of the Annals of the Association of American Geographers.