Why Employment Matters: Reviving Growth and Reducing Inequality
Thursday 19 February, 2015
4 - 5:30pm, $0
New School, Vera List Center
6 East 16 Street, Room D1103
Dr. Deepak Nayyar will give a lecture entitled "Why Employment Matters: Reviving Growth and Reducing Inequality".
Deepak Nayyar is Emeritus Professor of Economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University. He was Distinguished University Professor of Economics at the New School for Social Research. He has taught economics at the University of Oxford, the University of Sussex, and the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta. He was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Delhi.
His distinguished career in academia has been interspersed with periods in the government. He was in the Indian Administrative Service, worked as Economic Adviser in the Ministry of Commerce, and served as Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India and Secretary in the Ministry of Finance.
He was educated at St. Stephen's College and the Delhi School of Economics, 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.
This event is sponsored by The Economics Department at The New School for Social Research.