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
- since 1980 Professeur ordinaire Ecole des HEC Université de Lausanne
- since September 2005 Managing Director, Swiss Finance Institute
- 1996-2005 Director of The International Center for Financial Asset Management and Engineering (FAME), Geneva
- 1991-1992 Visiting Professor CUNY Graduate Center New York
- 1987-1991 Vice-Recteur University of Lausanne
- 1986-1987, 1995-1996, 2003 Visiting Professor Graduate School of Business Columbia University, New York
- 1979-1980 Professor assistant Ecole des HEC Université de Lausanne
- 1978-1979 Associate Professor Graduate School of Business Columbia University, New York
- 1976-1978 Assistant Professor Graduate School of Business Columbia University, New York
- June-July 1976 Professeur-visiteur-Associé de Recherche Ecole des Sciences de l'administration Université Laval, Québec P.Q., Canada
- 1975-1976 Associate in Business Graduate School of Business Columbia University, New York
Fields of Scholarship
- Macroeconomics
- Finance
- Econometric
Honours and Awards
- 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
- Faculté Universitaire Saint-Louis, 2009; University of Bologna, 2010
- 2004 (joint with K.-G. Mäler) International Society for Ecological Economics Kenneth E. Boulding Memorial Award (Biennial)
- 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.
- 2000 Knight Bachelor (Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II's Birthday Honours List, 2002, for "services to economics"). *Doctor, Honoris Causa: Wageningen University
- 2007 Catholic University of Louvain
- 2010-2011 President, European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists
- 2002 Volvo Environment Prize (joint with K.-G. Mäler)
- 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)
- President, Section F (Economics), BA (British Association for the Advancement of Science) Festival of Science, 2006
- 1998-2001 President, Royal Economic Society
- since 2008 Honorary Professor of Environmental and Climate Economics, University of Copenhagen
- 1999 President, European Economic Association
- 2007 - 2013 Andrew D. White Professor-at-Large, Cornell University
- 1997 Honorary Member, American Economic Association
- 2009 Member, Academia Europaea
- 1994 Honorary Fellow, London School of Economics
- 2009 Foreign Member, Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti
- 2005 Foreign Member, American Philosophical Society
- 2004 Fellow, Royal Society
- 2001 Fellow, Third World Academy of Sciences
- 2001 Foreign Associate, US National Academy of Sciences
- 1991 Foreign Member, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
- 1991 Foreign Honorary Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 1989 Fellow, British Academy
- 1975 Fellow, Econometric Society
