SPEAKER'S PROFILES
Partha Dasgupta
Partha Dasgupta, is Frank Ramsey Professor of Economics and past Chair (1997-2002) of the Faculty of Economics at the Cambridge University, and Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge.
He taught at the London School of Economics (1971-1984) and moved to Cambridge in 1985. He was also Professor of Economics, Professor of Philosophy, and Director of the Program in Ethics in Society at Stanford University (1989-1992); and served as Chairman of the (Scientific Advisory) Board of the Beijer International Institute of Ecological Economics, Stockholm (1991-1997).
Dasgupta's research interests cover welfare and development economics, economics of technological change, population, environmental and resource economics, game theory, and the economics of undernutrition. Publications include Guidelines for Project Evaluation (1972), Economic Theory and Exhaustible Resources (1979); The Control of Resources (1982); An Inquiry into Well-Being and Destitution (1993); Human Well-Being and the Natural Environment (2001; revised 2004); and Economics: A Very Short Introduction (2007).
Professor Dasgupta is fellow or member of numerous learned societies including the Econometric Society, British Academy, Royal Society, Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, Third World Academy of Sciences, American Economic Association, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, US National Academy of Sciences, and American Philosophical Society. He is past President of the Royal Economic Society, European Economic Association, and Section F (Economics) of the British Association for the Advancement of Science’s Festival of Science. He was named Knight Bachelor by Queen Elizabeth II in 2002 for "services to economics," and was co-winner of the 2002 Volvo Environment Prize, and the 2004 Kenneth E. Boulding Memorial Award of the International Society for Ecological Economics, and is the recipient of the John Kenneth Galbraith Award, 2007, of the American Agricultural Economics Association.
