Partha S. Dasgupta#
| Membership Number: | 2717 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | ECONOMICS, BUSINESS & MANAGEMENT SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2009 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2012 - 2019 Visiting Professor, New College of the Humanities, London
- 2008 - 2013 Professorial Research Fellow, Sustainable Consumption Institute, University of Manchester
- Autumn 2003 BP Visiting Professor, London School of Economics
- 1989 - 1992 Professor of Economics, Professor of Philosophy, and Director of the Programme in Ethics in Society, Stanford University
- Spring 1988 Visiting Professor, Princeton University
- Spring 1987 Visiting Professor, Harvard University
- 1985 - present Fellow, St John's College, Cambridge
- 1994 - 2010 Professor of Economics (Frank Ramsey Professor of Economics), University of Cambridge (January) 1985-2010. (Chairman of the Faculty of Economics & Politics, University of Cambridge, January 1997 - December 2001.) Frank Ramsey Professor Emeritus of Economics, University of Cambridge, 2010
- 1983 - 1984 Visiting Professor, Stanford University
- Autumn 1981 Ford Visiting Professor, Institute of Economic Growth, University of Delhi
- 1978 - (December) 1984 Professor of Economics, London School of Economics
- Autumn 1978 Visiting Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University
- 1975 - 1978 Reader, London School of Economics
- 1974 - 1975 Visiting Associate Professor, Stanford University
- 1971 - 1975 Lecturer, London School of Economics
- 1971 - 1974 Supernumerary Fellow, Trinity Hall, Cambridge
- 1970 - 1971 Visiting Fellow, Delhi School of Economics
- 1968 - 1971 Research Fellow, Trinity Hall, Cambridge
- 1968 - 1969 Visiting Assistant Professor, Carnegie-Mellon University
Fields of Scholarship
- Economy
Honours and Awards
- PRIZES
- 2022 United Nations Champion of the Earth Award (Science and Innovation)
- 2022 Freedom of the City of London by Special Nomination
- 2022 GG2 Man of the Year Award
- 2021 Kew International Medal, Royal Botanical Garden, Kew.
- 2016 John and Alice Tyler Prize
of the University of Southern California awarded for environmental science, health and energy conferring great benefit on humanity, announced in March 2016
- October 2015 Blue Planet Prize of the Asahi Glass Foundation for his scientific work on the environment
- 2014 European Lifetime Achievement Award in Environmental Economics, European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists
- 2010 Zayed International Environment Prize (Category II: scientific and technological achievements)
- 2007 John Kenneth Galbraith Award, American Agricultural Economics Association
- 2007 Co-recipient (with E. Maskin) of the Kempe Foundation-European Association of Environmental and Resource Economics-Umea University biennial Erik Kempe Award, for the article "Uncertainty and Hyperbolic Discounting", American Economic Review, 2005, 95(4), 1290-1299
- 2004 (joint with K.-G. Mäler) International Society for Ecological Economics Kenneth E. Boulding Memorial Award (Biennial)
- Co-recipient (with G.M. Heal) of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists "Publication of Enduring Quality Award 2003" forEconomic Theory and Exhaustible Resources (Cambridge University Press, 1979)
- 2002 Volvo Environment Prize (joint with K.-G. Mäler)
- 2000 Knight Bachelor (Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II's Birthday Honours List, 2002, for "services to economics")
- 1967 Stevenson Prize, University of Cambridge
- HONOURS
- 1975 Fellow, Econometric Society
- 1989 Fellow, British Academy
- 1991 Foreign Honorary Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 1991 Foreign Member, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
- 1994 Honorary Fellow, London School of Economics
- 1997 Honorary Member, American Economic Association
- 1997 - 2020 Member, Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences
- 1999 President, European Economic Association
- 1998 - 2001 President, Royal Economic Society
- 2001 Foreign Associate, US National Academy of Sciences
- 2001 Fellow, World Academy of Sciences (TWAS)
- 2002 Knight Bachelor (Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II's Birthday Honours List, for "services to economics")
- 2004 Fellow, Royal Society
- 2005 Foreign Member, American Philosophical Society
- 2006 President, Section F (Economics), BA (British Association for the Advancement of Science) Festival of Science
- 2007 - 2013 Andrew D. White Professor-at-Large, Cornell University
- since 2008 Honorary Professor of Environmental and Climate Economics, University of Copenhagen
- 2009 Foreign Member, Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti
- 2010 - 2011 President, European Association of Environmental and Resource Economics,
- 2010 Honorary Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge, 2010.
- 2011 Distinguished CES Fellow, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat, Munich.
- May 2012 Humanitas Visiting Professor in Economic Thought, University of Oxford
- 2013 Fellow, Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory
- 2017 Fellow, (American) Association of Environmental and Resource Economists
- 2021 Foreign Member, Society on Capitalism and Society
- 2022 Fellow, Society for Cost-Benefit Analysis
- 2022 Fellow, International Science Council (Inaugural list)
- 2023 Knight Grand Cross of the British Empire, for “services to economics and the natural environment,” New Year’s Honours List
- 2023 Honorary Fellow, Trinity Hall, Cambridge
- Doctor, Honoris Causa: Wageningen University, 2000; Catholic University of Louvain, 2007; Faculte Universitaire Saint-Louis, 2009; University of Bologna, 2010; University of Tilberg, 2012; Harvard University, 2013; University of York, 2017
