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. He is known both for his fundamental research in the social sciences and his applied work on national and global development issues. He has taught in various international academic summer schools or advanced training courses and visited academic institutions around the world.

Media

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

Advisory Roles

He has been consulted extensively by international organizations, governments and non-governmental organizations. These include various United Nations entities, the World Bank, the African Union Development Agency (AUDA-NEPAD), the European Parliament, the NYU Center for International Cooperation, the G-24 group of developing countries, the International Labour Organization, the New Development Bank, Oxfam, the UK Department for International Development, and Germany’s GIZ.  He has served on numerous United Nations advisory bodies and chaired or spoken in diverse High-Level meetings at the United Nations. He was elected a Fellow of the Human Development and Capabilities Association. He has served in editorial capacities on journals including 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, the Review of Income and Wealth, Springer Studies in Global Justice, and  the Journal of Human Development and Capabilities. He was a lead author of the International Panel on Social Progress.

Grants & Fellowships

He has held Fellowships from institutions including the Cambridge Commonwealth Trust, St. John’s College at Cambridge University, 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 held grants from sources including the Institute for New Economic Thinking, the Ford Foundation, the Hewlett Foundation and the Mellon Foundation.

Background

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. He has lived, studied and worked in multiple countries including Canada, India, the United Kingdom and the United States.