Deepak Nayyar

Deepak Nayyar
Deepak Nayyar at UNU-WIDER Annual Lecture, 2009.
Born	1946
Nationality	Indian
Institution	Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and the Government of India
Field	Development economics
Alma mater	Balliol College, University of Oxford
Influences	Paul Streeten
Awards	Honorary Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford

Deepak Nayyar (born 1946) is Professor of Economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and Chairperson of the Board of Governors of Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS) New Delhi. He has taught at the University of Oxford, the University of Sussex, the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (IIM-C), and the New School for Social Research, New York City. He was Vice Chancellor of the University of Delhi from 2000 to 2005.

He graduated from St. Stephen's College, Delhi, University of Delhi. Thereafter, as a Rhodes Scholar, he went on to study at Balliol College, University of Oxford, where he obtained a B.Phil. and a D. Phil in Economics. His 1974 doctoral thesis was titled "An Analysis of the Stagnation in India's Cotton Textile Exports" under the supervision of P. P. Streeten.

His academic career has been interspersed with short periods in the government. He was in the Indian Administrative Service. For some time, he worked as Economic Adviser in the Ministry of Commerce. Later, he was Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India and Secretary in the Ministry of Finance.

Nayyar is an Honorary Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford. And he is Chairman of Sameeksha Trust, which publishes Economic and Political Weekly. He served as Chairman of the Board of Governors of the World Institute for Development Economics Research, UNU-WIDER, Helsinki, from 2001 to 2008 and Vice President of the International Association of Universities, Paris, from 2004 to 2008. He was on the Board of Directors of the Social Science Research Council in the United States from 2001 to 2007 and was Chairman of the Advisory Council for the Department of International Development, Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford, from 2004 to 2007. He has received the VKRV Rao award for his contribution to research in Economics. He has been President of the Indian Economic Association. He is also on the Editorial Board of several professional journals.