Why Is He Famous?
Jagdish Bhagwati is a renowned professor of economics and is regarded as
one of the foremost international trade economist of modern times.
Widely tipped as a future Nobel laureate, Prof Bhagwati enjoys immense
reputation among his economist friends. Jagdish N. Bhagwati is presently
University Professor at the Columbia University and Senior Fellow in
International Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations. Earlier,
Prof Jagdish Bhagwati was Economic Policy Adviser to the Director
General, GATT (1991-93) and also served as Special Adviser to the UN on
Globalization and External Adviser to the Director General, WTO.
Currently, he is a member of UN Secretary General Kofi Annan's
High-level Advisory Group of the NEPAD (New Partnership for Africa's
Development) process in Africa. He presents himself as the human face of
global laissez-faire economics. Jagdish Bhagwati has written or edited
over 40 books and hundreds of articles on economics. Some of his famous
books are 'In Defense of Globalization' (2004), 'Free Trade Today'
(2002), 'The Wind of the Hundred Days' (2000), 'A Stream of Windows'
(1998), 'India in Transition' (1993), 'World Trading System at Risk'
(1991), 'Protectionism' (1988), 'Economics & Politics'
(founder-editor), 'The Journal of International Economics'
(founder-editor) etc.
Background
Jagdish Bhagwati was born in 1934, Mumbai, India. He graduated in
Commerce from the Bombay University and went to the Cambridge to pursue
post graduation in 1956. Afterwards, he did his PhD. at the MIT in 1967.
After studying in England and the United States, Bhagwati returned back
to India in 1961 and served as Professor of Economics at the Indian
Statistical Institute, and then as Professor of International Trade at
the Delhi School of Economics. He returned to the MIT in 1968. Twelve
years later he left the MIT and joined the Columbia University.
Jagdish Bhagwati has received many prestigious awards including the
Mahalanobis Memorial Medal (India), the Bernhard Harms Prize (Germany),
the Kenan Prize (USA), the John R. Commons Award (USA), the Freedom
Prize (Switzerland), and the Frank E. Seidman Distinguished Award in
Political Economy (USA). Prof Jagdish Bhagwati works with several NGOs
in the US and India. On the personal front, Bhagwati lives in America
with his wife Padma Desai, who is also an economics professor at the
Columbia University. Their daughter, Anuradha Kristina Bhagwati, is a
U.S. Marine officer.
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