Jagadish
Bhagwati was born in India in the year 1934. He
did his graduation from Cambrige University in
1965 with a first in Economic Tripos. He then
studied at Massachusetts Institute of
Technology and Oxford University and returned back
to India in 1961 and worked as Professor of
Economics at the Indian Statistical Institute.
Later
worked as the Professor of International Trade at
the Delhi School of Economic. In 1968 he went back
to Massachesetts Institute of Technology and lived
there for 12 years and then, joined as Ford
International Professor of Economic Columbia.
Until
2001, he used to be Arthur Lehman Professor of
Economics and Professor of Political Science at
Columbia. Professor Bhagwati has also served
as Economic Policy Advisor to Director-General, GATT (1991-1993) and as Special Adviser to the UN on
Globalization (2001). Currently, he is an External
Adviser to the WTO.
Prof.
Bhawati has many credit of publishing over two
hundred articles and forty volumes. It was
regarded as one of the foremost international
trade theorists of his generation, he made
considerable contribution to the development
theory and policy, public finance, immigration and
new theory of political economy.
He
has written books which have earned acclaims for
various readers. The books are
| 1 |
India:
Planning for Industrialization (with Padma Desai, 1970) |
| 2 |
India (with T.N. Srinivasan, 1975) |
| 3 |
India
in Transition: Freeing the Economy,
published in 1993 by Clarendon
Press, Oxford |
| 4 |
Protectionism (1988) |
| 5 |
The
World Trading System at Risk (1991) |
|
Bhagwati
writes for The New York Time, The Wall Street
Journal, The Financial Times and The New Republic.
He has delivered many prestigious lectures,
among them the Frank Graham Lecture at Princeton,
the Bertil Ohlin Lectures at the Stockholm School
of Economics, the Harry Johnson Lecture in London,
the Eyskens Lectures in Belgium, the Radhakrishnan
Lectures in Oxford, and the Prebisch Lecture at
UNCTAD IX in Johannesburg.
He
works with several NGOs in the US and India.
He is on the Academic Advisory Board of Human
Rights Watch (Asia) and was a member of the
Advisory Board of the Council on Economic
Priorities Accreditation Agency (which has created
the SA 8000 Standard for Corporate Social
Accountability). He is also the Chairman of
the International Advisory Board of the CUTS
(Consumer Unity and Trust Society) Centre for
International Trade and Economics, a prominent
International NGO working on trade and development
issues |
