Sugata Marjit is the former Vice Chancellor of the University of Calcutta and currently the First Distinguished Professor at Indian Institute of Foreign Trade[1] and the Project Director[2] of Centre for Training & Research in Public Finance and Policy (CTRPFP) [A Ministry of Finance, Government of India funded initiative]. He is a Ph.D. at the University of Rochester and currently the Editor of South Asian Journal of Macroeconomics and Public Finance.[3] He used to be the Director[4] of Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta from March 2007 to March 2012 and Reserve Bank of India Chair Professor of Industrial Economics at CSSSC[5] till September, 2019. On 15 July 2015 he took the charge as an interim Vice-Chancellor[6] of the prestigious University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India.

Sugata Marjit সুগত মারজিৎ
51st Vice Chancellor of Calcutta University
In office
15 July 2015 - 14 July 2016
Preceded byProf. Suranjan Das
Succeeded byProf. Ashutosh Ghosh
Personal details
NationalityIndian

Awards and honors edit

  • Recipient of the Panchanan Chakravarty Memorial Award (1999) awarded by the Bengal Economic Association for promoting teaching and research in West Bengal, India
  • Mahalanobis Memorial Medal, Indian Econometric Society, 2002
  • Recipient of the best paper award US$10000 from the Global Development Network (World Bank) on the theme “Globalization and Inequality” (2003)
  • V.K.R.V. Rao National Award for Young Social Scientist (Economics, 2003) by the Indian Council of Social Science Research ( Ministry of HRD., Govt. of India)
  • External Research Fellow - Nottingham Centre for Research on Globalization and Economic Policy(GEP), University of Nottingham (2008 - ) [7]
  • Prof. AL Nagar Fellow, Indian Econometric Society, 2020

Publications edit

Books edit

  • Marjit, Sugata; Raychaudhuri, Ajitava (1997). India's exports: an analytical study. Delhi New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195642353.
  • Marjit, Sugata; Acharyya, Rajat (2003). International trade, wage inequality and the developing economy: a general equilibrium approach. Heidelberg New York: Physica-Verlag. ISBN 9783790800319.
  • Marjit, Sugata; Singh, Nirvikar (2003). Joint ventures, international investment and technology transfer. New Delhi New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195648027.
  • Marjit, Sugata (2008). International trade and economic development: essays in theory and policy. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195691719.
  • Marjit, Sugata; Mallick, Indrajit (2008). Financial intermediation in a less developed economy the history of the United Bank of India. New Delhi, India: Sage. ISBN 9781281963604.
  • Marjit, Sugata; Kar, Saibal (2011). The Outsiders" Economic Reform and Informal Labour in a Developing Economy. New Delhi, India: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198071495.
  • Marjit, Sugata; Mandal, Biswajit; Nakanishi, Noritsugu (2020). "Virtual Trade and Comparative Advantage : The Fourth Dimension". Springer Nature. Springer Singapore. ISBN 978-981-15-3906-0 .
  • Marjit, Sugata; Das, Gouranga G.; Mandal, Biswajit (2023). "Virtual Trade in a Changing World : Comparative Advantage, Growth and Inequality". Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-100-91-0574-3

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