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DR. JAYATI GHOSH is an Indian development economist. She is currently a Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the United States, and previously taught at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi for more than thirty years.

Dr Ghosh has authored and/or edited over twenty books, and regularly writes columns on economics for Frontline and other prominent publications in India and around the world. She was Founder-Secretary of the International Development Economics Associates for 20 years and is one of the founders of the Economic Research Foundation in New Delhi. She has advised and consulted with many governments and international organisations and is a member of two high level Boards of the United Nations.

Dr Ghosh holds a BA from the University of Delhi, an MA and MPhil from Jawaharlal Nehru University, and a PhD from the University of Cambridge.