29 Facts About Jagdish Bhagwati

Jagdish Natwarlal Bhagwati was born on July 26,1934 and is an Indian-born naturalized American economist and one of the most influential trade theorists of his generation.

Jagdish Bhagwati is a University Professor of economics and law at Columbia University and a Senior Fellow in International Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations.

Jagdish Bhagwati has made significant contributions to international trade theory and economic development.

Jagdish Bhagwati is widely regarded as the intellectual father of the Indian economic reforms of 1991.

Jagdish Bhagwati is the only professor in American academia to have a chair named after him while he was still teaching at the university.

Jagdish Bhagwati is one of only 10 scholars who hold the title of University Professor at Columbia University.

Jagdish Bhagwati was born in 1934, into a Gujarati family in the Bombay Presidency during the British Raj.

Jagdish Bhagwati attended St Xavier's High School and received a BCom from Sydenham College, Mumbai.

Jagdish Bhagwati then traveled to England to study at St John's College, Cambridge, receiving a second BA at Cambridge in 1956.

Jagdish Bhagwati received a PhD in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1967 for a thesis titled "Essays in International Economics," supervised by Charles P Kindleberger.

Jagdish Bhagwati has received honorary degrees from the University of Sussex and Erasmus University, as well as others.

Jagdish Bhagwati is married to Padma Desai, a Columbia economist and Russia-specialist; they have one daughter.

Jagdish Bhagwati and Desai's joint 1970 OECD study India: Planning for Industrialization was a notable contribution at the time.

Jagdish Bhagwati then returned to American academia and from 1968 until 1980, Bhagwati was the Ford International Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Jagdish Bhagwati is one of the only 10 scholars who hold the title of University Professor at Columbia University.

Jagdish Bhagwati is a Senior Fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations in New York and is a Member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Philosophical Society.

Jagdish Bhagwati currently serves on the Academic Advisory Board of Human Rights Watch and on the board of scholars of the Centre for Civil Society.

Jagdish Bhagwati has held several important positions internationally, including special adviser to the United Nations on globalization, economic policy adviser to Arthur Dunkel-the director-general of General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and external adviser to the World Trade Organization.

Jagdish Bhagwati has worked as a member of group appointed by the director-general of the WTO on the future of the WTO.

Jagdish Bhagwati was a member of the advisory committee to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan on the New Partnership for Africa's Development, an economic program accelerating economic co-operation and integration among African countries.

In May, 2004, Jagdish Bhagwati was one of the experts who took part in the Copenhagen Consensus project.

In 2006, Jagdish Bhagwati was a part of the Eminent Persons Group along with Brazilian President Fernando Henrique Cardoso on the future of United Nations Conference on Trade and Development.

In early 2010, Jagdish Bhagwati joined the advisory board of the Institute for Migrant Rights in Indonesia.

In 2000, Jagdish Bhagwati was signatory to an amicus briefing, coordinated by the American Enterprise Institute, with the Supreme Court of the United States to contend that the Environmental Protection Agency should, contrary to a prior ruling, be allowed to take into account the costs of regulations when setting environmental standards.

In January 2004, Jagdish Bhagwati published In Defense of Globalization, a book in which he argues that globalization, when properly governed, is the most powerful force for social good in the world today.

Jagdish Bhagwati described how globalization helps the cause of women, reduces child labor and increases literacy.

Jagdish Bhagwati was the fictional winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics in The Simpsons episode Elementary School Musical.

Jagdish Bhagwati is more like Haydn: a composer of more than a hundred symphonies and no one of them other than top notch.

Jagdish Bhagwati has received honorary degrees from the University of Sussex and Erasmus University, as well as others.