News from the John W. Kluge Center: A Life in Two Worlds: A Conversation with Deepak Nayyar

Description: An exploration of economics, history, and public policy viewed via a biographical journey with distinguished economist and university vice-chancellor, eminent public intellectual, and trusted adviser to prime ministers, Deepak Nayyar.

Deepak Nayyar is Emeritus Professor of Economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He was Distinguished University Professor of Economics at the New School for Social Research, New York, from 2008 to 2012 and he was Professor of Economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, from 1986 to 2011. Earlier he taught economics at the University of Oxford, the University of Sussex, and the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta. He was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Delhi from 2000 to 2005. His distinguished career in academia has been interspersed with short periods in the government. He was, to start with, in the Indian Administrative Service. Later, from 1983 to 1985, he worked as Economic Adviser in the Ministry of Commerce. He served as Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India and Secretary in the Ministry of Finance from 1989 to 1991. He was educated at St. Stephen’s College and the Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi. 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.