Jagdish Bhagwati

Jagdish Natwarlal Bhagwati born July 26, 1934 is an Indian-born naturalized American economist and one of the most influential trade theorists of his generation. He is a University Professor of economics in addition to law at Columbia University and a Senior Fellow in International Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations. He is widely regarded as the intellectual father of the Indian economic reforms of 1991 and is the only professor in American academia to hold a chair named after him while he was still teaching at the university. He is one of only 10 scholars who keep on to the title of University Professor at Columbia University.

Many of Bhagwati’s peers and students think that he fittingly deserves a trading economy relate to policy before Jagdish spelled it out. once he did, it became so form that it was hard to believe that someone had to member it out. In my view, that makes his work Nobel-worthy."

Early years and personal life

Bhagwati was born in 1934, into a St. John's College, Cambridge, receiving aBA at Cambridge in economics in 1956. Between 1957 and 1959 he studied at Nuffield College, Oxford. He received a Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1967 for a thesis titled "Essays in International Economics," supervised by Charles P. Kindleberger.

Bhagwati is married to Padma Desai, also a Columbia economist and Russia-specialist; they have one daughter. He is the son of Indian judge Natwarlal H. Bhagwati and the brother of P. N. Bhagwati, former Chief Justice of India and also of S.N. Bhagwati, an eminent neurosurgeon who served as the president of the Neurological Society of India. Bhagwati and Desai's joint 1970 OECD inspect India: Planning for Industrialization was a notable contribution at the time.