Jagdish Bhagwati

Jagdish Bhagwati is University Professor at Columbia University and the Andre Meyer Senior Fellow in International Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations, New York. He has been Special Adviser to the UN on Globalization, Economic Policy Adviser to the Director General, GATT, and External Adviser to the WTO.

He has been honored with six festschrifts and has received several honorary degrees and Prizes, including the Freedom Prize which he shared with Sir Leon Brittan, and awards from the governments of India (Padma Vibhushan) and Japan (Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star). Aside from his scientific work consisting of over 50 volumes and three hundred articles, he writes frequently for major newspapers and magazines worldwide. Seven volumes of his essays have been published by MIT Press. His latest books include Free Trade Today (Princeton, 2002) and In Defense of Globalization (Oxford, 2004).

A native of India, Professor Bhagwati attended Cambridge University where he graduated in 1956 with a first in Economics Tripos. He is married to Padma Desai, the Gladys and Ronald Harriman Professor of Comparative Economic Systems at Columbia University and a scholar of Russian and other former socialist countries' transition problems. They have one daughter, Anuradha Kristina.