| Date | Speaker | Affiliation |
| January 21 | Aruni Mitra | University of Manchester |
| January 28 | CMIE | |
| February 4 | Jaya Jha | Davidson College |
| February 11/ 18 | Tridib Sharma | ITAM, Mexico |
| February 25 | Vasudha Jain | IIT Kanpur |
| March 25 | Nishith Prakash | University of Connecticut |
| April 15 | Rajnish Kumar | Queen's University Belfast |
Seminars for Monsoon 2021
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation |
| August 27 | Rahul Deb | University of Toronto |
| September 9 | Amitendu Palit | National University of Singapore |
| September 17 | Kaushik Krishnan | CMIE |
| September 24 | Ruhi Sonal | IIT Jodhpur |
| October 1 | Abhinandan Sinha | ISI, Kolkata |
| October 22 | Priya Mukherjee | University of Wisconsin Madison |
| October 29 | Swagata Bhattacharjee | Ashoka University |
| November 12 | Tim Salmon | Southern Methodist University |
| November 19 | Ugo Panizza | The Graduate Institute, Geneva |
| November 26 | To be announced | |
| December 3 | Lata Gangadharan | Monash University |
| December 10 | Pablo D'Erasmo | FRB, Philadelphia |