An eminent economist known for his advocacy of free trade, Jagdish Natwarlal Bhagwati, has been nominated for the Economics Nobel for more than nine times. Noted economists feel he is the biggest contender for the prestigious award this year.
Professor of Economics, at the Columbia University, Bhagwati was born in Mumbai (then Bombay) in 1934 and graduated from Sydenham College. He graduated with a BA in Economics from St. John's College, Cambridge in 1956, and received PhD Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1967.
Bhagwati is married to Padma Desai, the Gladys and Ronald Harriman Professor of Comparative Economic Systems at Columbia University.
Bhagwati has previously served as an external advisor to the Director General of the World Trade Organization in 2001, as a special policy advisor on globalization to the United Nations in 2000, and as an economics policy advisor to the Director-General of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade from 1991 to 1993.
From 1968 until 1980, Bhagwati was an economics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Image: Prof Jagdish Bhagwati interacting with the media | Photograph: Paresh Gandhi
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