Partha Dasgupta - Appointments

Appointments

Dasgupta taught at the London School of Economics (Lecturer 1971-1975; Reader 1975-1978; Professor 1978-1984) and moved to the University of Cambridge in January 1985 as Professor of Economics (and Professorial Fellow of St John's College), where he served as Chairman of the Faculty of Economics in 1997-2001. During 1989-92 he was on leave from the University of Cambridge and served as Professor of Economics, Professor of Philosophy, and Director of the Program in Ethics in Society at Stanford University. In October 1991 he returned to Cambridge, on leave from Stanford University, to reassume his Chair at Cambridge. He resigned from Stanford in 1992 and has remained in Cambridge since then.

During 1991-97 Dasgupta was Chairman of the (Scientific Advisory) Board of the Beijer International Institute of Ecological Economics of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm. During 1999-2009 he served as a Founder Member of the Management and Advisory Committee of the South Asian Network for Development and Environmental Economics (SANDEE), based in Kathmandu. In 1996 he helped to establish the journal Environment and Development Economics, published by Cambridge University Press, whose purpose has been not only to publish original research at the interface of poverty and the environmental-resource base, but also to provide an opportunity to scholars in poor countries to publish their findings in an international journal.

Since 2008 he has been a Professorial Research Fellow at the University of Manchester's Sustainable Consumption Institute (SCI). He is also a Andrew D. White Professor-at-Large (2007–2013) at Cornell University and is currently (2010–2011) President of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE). He is a patron of Population Matters (formerly the Optimum Population Trust). In 2011 he was appointed Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board of the International Human Dimensions Programme (IHDP) on Global Environmental Change, Bonn; Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Wittgenstein Centre, Vienna; and Chairman of the Central Government Expert Group on Green National Accounting for India. In June 2011 it was announced he would join the professoriate of New College of the Humanities, a private college in London.