Professor Sir Partha Sarathi Dasgupta
is the
Frank Ramsey Professor of
Economics at the
University of Cambridge,
United Kingdom, and a fellow of
St John's College, Cambridge. He was born in Dhaka, Bangladesh
Affiliations
Dasgupta is a fellow of St. John's College, a fellow of the Econometric Society, a fellow of the British Academy, foreign honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, honorary fellow of the London School of Economics, honorary member of the
American Economic Association, member of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, foreign associate of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, fellow of the Third World Academy of Sciences and patron of the
Optimum Population Trust. He is a past
president of the Royal Economic Society (1998-2001) and the European Economic Association (1999). From 1991 to 1997, Dasgupta was
chairman of the scientific board of the Beijer International Institute of Ecological Economics of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and, from 1989 to 1992, professor of economics and philosophy, and director of the Program in Ethics in Society at Stanford University. Since 2008 he has been part-time Professor of Environmental and Development
Economics at the University of Manchester's Sustainable Consumption Institute (SCI) and
Brooks World Poverty Institute (BWPI).
[edit] Honours
Dasgupta was named Knight Bachelor by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in 2002 in her Birthday Honours List for services to economics and was co-recipient (with Karl Goran Maler) of the 2002 Volvo Environment Prize. He is a fellow of the Royal Society (elected 2004), a foreign member of the American Philosophical Society