About

Professional Biography

Summary

Sanjay G. Reddy is Professor of Economics and former Chair of the Department of Economics, and an affiliated member of the Department of Politics, at The New School for Social Research in New York.

Media and Citations

He has been widely cited in academic publications. He has been published or referred to by world media such as Barron’s, The Boston Globe, The Economist, Foreign Policy, The Financial Times, The Guardian, The Hindu, The Nation, The National Post, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, Project Syndicate and die Zeit. His work has been translated into Catalan, Chinese, French, German, Hindi, Portuguese, Spanish, Telugu and Turkish.

Grants & Fellowships

He has received grants from various sources including the Institute for New Economic Thinking, the Ford Foundation and the Mellon Foundation.  He has held fellowships from the Center for Ethics and the Center for Population and Development Studies at Harvard University, the Center for Human Values at Princeton University, the Justitia Amplificata program of the Goethe University of Frankfurt and Free University of Berlin, the Advanced Research Collaborative of the City University of New York, and the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America. He has also taught in various international academic summer schools or advanced training courses, and has been invited to be a visitor at academic institutions around the world.

Advisory Roles

He has been consulted extensively by international organizations, governments and non-governmental organizations and had a number of high profile advisory roles.  He has served on various High-Level United Nations advisory bodies and chaired or spoken in a number of high profile sessions at the United Nations and in other international bodies. He was elected a Fellow of the Human Development and Capabilities Association. He is or has been a member of various editorial boards such as the American Review of Political Economy, Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, Development, Ethics & International Affairs, the European Journal of Development Research, Global Justice: Theory Practice Rhetoric, Humanity, the Indian Journal of Human Development, the Journal of Globalization and Development, the Review of Agrarian Studies, and the Review of Income and Wealth, and was Associate Editor of the Journal of Human Development and Capabilities. He was a lead author of the International Panel on Social Progress.

Background

He has lived and studied in Canada, India, the UK and the US. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University, an M.Phil. in Social Anthropology from the University of Cambridge (where he was a Commonwealth Scholar and received a studentship from St. John’s College) and an A.B.  in Applied Mathematics with Physics from Harvard University.