Sir Partha Dasgupta Author

Sir Partha Dasgupta is a Professor of Economics at the University of Cambridge, and a fellow of St John’s College, Cambridge. Previously, he taught at the London School of Economics and Stanford University. His research has covered development economics, the economics of technological change, population, social capital and ecological economics. In 2019, he was commissioned by the UK Treasury to write a report, The Economics of Biodiversity: The Dasgupta Review, which was published in 2021 to much acclaim. He was appointed Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire in 2023 for his services to economics and the natural environment.