IDEAs Founder Member Prof. Jayati Ghosh receives the 2023 International Economic Association Fellow Award

Professor Jayati Ghosh, a founding member of IDEAs, has received the coveted 2023 Fellow Award of the International Economic Association (IEA). Awarded in recognition of “excellence in economic research, research-driven popular writing, and economic policymaking”, this annual fellowship is bestowed upon no more than 10 economists worldwide who have significantly contributed to the creation or dissemination of new ideas and high-quality policy work.

Founded in 1950 as a non-governmental organization, the IEA retains consultative relations with UNESCO and is a federated member of the International Social Science Council. It fosters international collaboration among economists through scientific meetings, common research programs, and publications on topical issues. Its recent past presidents include Joseph Stiglitz (2011-2014), Kaushik Basu (2017-2021) and Dani Rodrik (2021-2023). Other past presidents of the IEA include Amartya Sen, Kenneth Arrow and Robert Solow.

Professor Ghosh, a renowned development economist, taught at Jawaharlal Nehru University for over 35 years and is currently a Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She has authored and edited over 20 books, published more than 400 scholarly articles, and frequently contributes commentary and ope’ds to diverse popular media. Prof. Ghosh has received numerous awards, including the 2023 Galbraith Award from the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA). She has also served on various international commissions, such as the UN High-Level Advisory Board on Economic and Social Affairs, the Commission on Global Economic Transformation of INET, the International Commission for the Reform of International Corporate Taxation (ICRICT), the WHO Council on the Economics of Health for All, and the UN Secretary-General’s High-Level Advisory Board on Effective Multilateralism.

IDEAs congratulates Prof. Ghosh on this laudable achievement.