Sir Partha Dasgupta

Partha Dasgupta, who was born in 1942 in Dhaka (now in Bangladesh) and educated in Varanasi, Delhi, and Cambridge, is the Frank Ramsey Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge. Dasgupta is a Founder Member the South Asian Network for Development and Environmental Economics (SANDEE), Kathmandu, established in 1999. He helped to establish the journal Environment and Development Economics, published by Cambridge University Press, whose purpose has been not only to publish original research at the interface of poverty and the environmental-resource base, but also to provide an opportunity to scholars in developing countries to publish their findings in an international journal. He is a Fellow of the British Academy (1989), Fellow of the Royal Society (2004), Member of Academia Europaea (2009), Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1991), Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of Sciences (2001), Fellow of the World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), 2001, and the American Philosophical Society (2005); Member, Academia Europaea (2009); and a past President of the Royal Economic Society (1998-2001), the European Economic Association (1999), the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (2010-11). Dasgupta was named Knight Bachelor by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in her Birthday Honours List in 2002 for "services to economics"; was co-winner (with Karl-Goran Maler of the Beijer International Institute of Ecological Economics, Stockholm) of the 2002 Volvo Environment Prize; was recipient of the John Kenneth Galbraith Award, 2007, of the American Agricultural Economics Association, the Zayed International Environment Prize in 2010; the 2015 Blue Planet Prize; the 2016 Tyler Prize; the Kew International Medal, Royal Botanical Garden, Kew, 2021; and the 2024 BBVA Foundation Award for Economics, Finance, and Management. In 2023 Dasgupta was made Knight Grand Cross of the British Empire by King Charles III “for services to economics and the environment”.