Jayati Ghosh taught economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi for 35 years, and is currently Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA. She has authored and/or edited 21 books and 230 scholarly articles. She also writes regularly for popular media, including newspapers, journals and blogs.
Prizes received include the International Labour Organisation’s Decent Work Research Prize for contributions to research in 2011; the 2023 Galbraith award of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, “in recognition of breakthrough discoveries in economics and outstanding contributions to humanity through leadership, research and service” and the International Economics Association Fellow Award for 2023 for “outstanding work and excellence in economic research, research-driven popular writing, and economic policymaking.” She has advised governments in India and other countries and consulted for various international organizations. From 2002 to 2021, she was the Executive Secretary of International Development Economics Associates (www.networkideas.org). She has been a member of several international boards and commissions, including the UN High-Level Advisory Board on Economic and Social Affairs 2016 to the present, the WHO Council on the Economics of Health for All 2022-23, the UN Secretary General’s High-Level Advisory Board on Effective Multilateralism 2021-23, the Club of Rome 2022 to the present, the Jubilee Debt Commission created by Pope Francis in 2024 and the Extraordinary Committee of Experts on Inequality constituted by President Cyril Ramaphosa for the South African G20 Presidency in 2025. She is Co-Chair (with Joseph E. Stiglitz) of the Independent Commission for the Reform of International Capital Taxation and Vice-Chair of the Founding Committee of the International Panel on Inequality in 2026.