| Name(s) |
MEGHNAD Jagdishchandra
DESAI |
| Date of
Birth |
July 10, 1940
- in Baroda, Gujarat, India. |
|
Identity |
Indian-born,
naturalised British economist and Labour politician. |
|
General |
- He is also known as Baron Desai
and Lord Desai.
- He unsuccessfully stood
for the Speaker in the
British House of Lords in
2011, the first ever non-UK born
candidate to do so.
- He pursued a master's degree
from the University of
Mumbai, after which he won
a scholarship to University
of Pennsylvania in August
1960. He completed his PhD
at Pennsylvania in 1963.
- Currently, as of June, 2016, he
is chairman of the Official Monetary
and Financial Institutions Forum (OMFIF)
Advisory Board, an independent
membership-driven research network.
It focuses on global policy and
investment themes for off the record
public and private sector engagement
and analysis.
- In 2003, he retired as Director
of the Centre for the Study
of global governance, which he
founded in 1992 at the
London School of Economics (LSE),
where he is now (June, 2016)
Professor Emeritus.
- He serves as the founder
chairman of the Meghnad
Desai Academy of Economics at
Mumbai.
|
| Awards
and Accolades |
PADMA BHUSHAN Award -
2008. |
|
