17 Facts About Deepak Nayyar

Deepak Nayyar was born on 26 September 1946 and is an Indian economist and an academic.

Deepak Nayyar is currently Chair of the Board of Trustees, Institute for Development Studies, Sussex, United Kingdom ; Emeritus Professor of Economics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi; Honorary Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford; and Distinguished Fellow, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi.

Deepak Nayyar went on to complete a Bachelor of Arts Honors in Economics in 1965 and Master of Arts in Economics in 1967, from St Stephen's College, University of Delhi.

Deepak Nayyar has the unique distinction of having had a career that includes academia, government service, and corporate boards.

Deepak Nayyar served as a Research Fellow, Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford, from 1972 to 1973 and as a Lecturer in Economics at the University of Sussex between 1973 and 1980.

Deepak Nayyar was Professor of Economics at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, from 1986 to 1989; 1992 to 2000; and 2005 to 2011.

Deepak Nayyar served as Vice-Chancellor, University of Delhi from May 2000 to May 2005.

Deepak Nayyar was Distinguished University Professor of Economics, New School for Social Research, New York, from 2008 to 2012.

Deepak Nayyar was President, Indian Society for Labour Economics ; and Member of the Governing Council and the Executive Committee, Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage ;.

Currently, Deepak Nayyar is the Chairman, Board of Trustees, Institute for Development Studies, Sussex.

Deepak Nayyar became a Member of the Indian Administrative Service, Government of India in 1969 which he left in 1973.

Deepak Nayyar served as the Economic Adviser to the Government of India, Ministry of Commerce, New Delhi from 1983 to 1985; and then as the Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India and Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Finance, New Delhi, from 1989 to 1991.

Deepak Nayyar was a Member of Evaluation Committee, Institute of Social Studies, The Hague ; Chairman of the Working Groups on Labour Mobility and Construction and Engineering Services for the Group of Negotiations on Services, Uruguay Round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations, Geneva ; and Member of the North-South Roundtable on Trade.

Deepak Nayyar was bestowed with the coveted Malcolm Adiseshiah Award in 2019 recognising his Lifetime Contribution to Development Studies.

Deepak Nayyar was awarded the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic, L'Onorificenza di Cavaliere, conferred by the President of Italy in 2007, and received the VKRV Rao Award in 1989 for his contribution to research in Economics.

Deepak Nayyar was a Rhodes Scholar from India at Oxford.

Deepak Nayyar was President of Indian Economic Association in 1995.