Jayati Ghosh

Jayati Ghosh is Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She previously taught at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi for more than two decades. She holds a PhD and an MPhil in Economics from the University of Cambridge and has published extensively on economic development, globalisation, labour, inequality, gender and macroeconomic policy.

Dr Ghosh has worked extensively with international organisations and has served on several high-level international advisory bodies, including the United Nations High Level Advisory Board on Economic and Social Affairs, the UN Secretary-General’s High Level Advisory Board on Effective Multilateralism and the WHO Council on the Economics of Health for All. She is also Co-Chair of the Independent Commission for the Reform of International Corporate Taxation (ICRICT).