Dr. Shubhashis Gangopadhyay,Indian economist
Dr. Shubhashis Gangopadhyay is an eminent Indian economist. Shubhashis did his Ph.D. in Economics from Cornell University, USA and was a professor in Indian Statistical Institute. He has published widely in journals on development economics, international trade, industrial organization, regulatory economics and finance. He has also co-authored and co-edited a number of books in economics and finance. He is the Chief Editor of the Journal of Emerging Market Finance and has been the founder-President of two professional societies, the Society for Economic Research and Financial Analysis (SERFA) and the Society for the Promotion of Game Theory and its Applications (SPGTA). He has been on many government committees and consulted with various ministries and private business. He is on the board of CFAB (Indian School of Business), and on the Advisory Boards of universities abroad, as well as for the World Bank’s chief economist’s cell. He is the managing trustee of India Development Foundation, which he has set up with its major objective to develop awareness about how markets work, why they are desirable and how we can develop them. The advisory board of IDF includes among others Mr. Vijay Kelkar,, Mr. Narayan Murthy, Mr. Karti Sandilya, Dr. Amartya Sen, and Mr. Ratan Tata.