Deepak Nayyar is an Emeritus Professor of Economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and an Honorary Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford. He was recently invited to the Kluge Chair in Countries and Cultures of the South at the United States Library of Congress, Washington DC, for the academic year 2022-23. He was a Distinguished University Professor of Economics at the New School for Social Research, New York. He also served as Vice Chancellor, University of Delhi. Earlier, he taught at the University of Oxford, the University of Sussex, and the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta.
Professor Nayyar was Chairman of the Board of the World Institute for Development Economics Research, UNU-WIDER, Helsinki from 2001 to 2008. He has served as Director on the Board of the Social Science Research Council in the United States from 2001 to 2007. He served as a member of the World Commission on the Social Dimension of Globalization from 2002 to 2004, and as Vice Chairman of the South Centre, Geneva, and as Vice President of the International Association of Universities from 2004 to 2008. His professional life in academia has been interspersed with time in the world of public policy, as Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India and Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Finance from 1989 to 1991.
He was educated at St. Stephen’s College and the Delhi School of Economics. Thereafter, as a Rhodes Scholar, he went on to study at Balliol College, University of Oxford, where he obtained a B. Phil and a D. Phil in Economics. He has published numerous articles in professional journals and several books. He is on the editorial board of several professional journals, and Chairman of the Sameeksha Trust which publishes Economic and Political Weekly.
Professor Nayyar’s research interests are primarily in the areas of international economics, macroeconomics development economics and economic history. He has published papers and books on a wide range of subjects, including economic growth, macroeconomic theory, macro policies, macroeconomic stabilization, structural adjustment, trade theory, trade policies, industrialization strategies, industrial policy, economic liberalization, human development, employment, international migration, multilateral trading system, globalization, and the world economy. In addition, he has written extensively on economic development in India. His most recent work is on the remarkable economic transformation, and rise, of Asia during the past fifty years.