Prof. Jayati Ghosh
Professor, Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Ghosh worked as Professor of Economics at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
Jayati Ghosh is Professor of Economics at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She was born in 1955 and educated at Delhi University, Jawaharlal Nehru University and the University of Cambridge, England where she obtained her Ph.D. in 1983. Since 2002 she has been the Executive Secretary of International Development Economics Associates (IDEAS), an international network of heterodox development economists (www.networkideas.org). She is Founding Trustee of the Economic Research Foundation (www.macroscan.org).
She received the NordSud Prize for Social Sciences 2010 of the Fondazione Pescarabruzzo, Italy, and was awarded the ILO Decent Work Research Prize for 2010. She was the principal author of the West Bengal Human Development Report 2004 which received the 2005 UNDP Award for excellence in analysis. She has also been chosen for several prizes in India: two from the Asiatic Society, Kolkata, and most recently the Malcolm Adisheshaiah Award for Distinguished Contributions to Social Sciences, 2015. She has been Conference President of the Indian Society for Labour Economics in 2013 and is Co-Chair of the Scientific Committee of the World Social Science Forum to be held in Durban, South Africa in September 2015.
Her current research interests include globalisation, international trade and finance, employment patterns in developing countries, macroeconomic policy, issues related to gender and development, and the implications of recent growth in China and India. She has authored several books and more than 160 scholarly articles. Recent books include “Work and Well Being in the Age of Finance” (Tulika Books, New Delhi), “The Market that Failed: Neoliberal Economic Reforms in India” (Leftword Books, New Delhi), “Tracking the Macroeconomy”, (ICFAI University Press, Hyderabad) “Never Done and Poorly Paid: Women’s Work in Globalising India” (Women Unlimited, New Delhi) and “After Crisis: Adjustment, Recovery and Fragility in East Asia” (Tulika Books, New Delhi). Forthcoming books include “India and the International Economy”, an edited volume for OUP, and the Elgar Handbook of Alternative Theories of Economic Development, (volume co-edited with Erik Reinert and Rainer Kattel), Edward Elgar.
In addition to her academic work, she is a regular columnist for several newspapers and journals in India, including Frontline and Businessline, global online blogs such as Triple Crisis Blog and also writes for The Guardian newspaper occasionally. She was the Chairperson of the Commission on Farmers’ Welfare in 2004 constituted by the state government of Andhra Pradesh in India, and Member of the National Knowledge Commission reporting to the Prime Minister of India (2005-09). She has consulted for a large number of international organisations, including UNDP, UNCTAD, UN-DESA, UN Women and ILO. She is a member of a number of advisory boards of institutions and academic journals.
She is closely involved in working with progressive organisations and social movements. She also maintains an active interest in western classical music and is Vice-President of the Delhi Music Society. She is married with one daughter.
