Amit Bhaduri was educated in Calcutta, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Cambridge University, from where he received his Ph. D in 1967. Currently professor of economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, he has held professorial and research positions in many countries, including Austria (Vienna and Linsz University, Institute for Advanced Study, and Academy of Science), Germany (Bremen University, Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin), Italy (Bolognia University), Norway and Sweden (Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in Social Sciences, Uppsala University, and Trondheim University), and USA (Stanford University). He has served as research advisor and expert on many UN bodies and has been a member of various international commissions, including the European Commission on Unemployment and the Commission on Rural Finance.
Amit Bhaduri has written nearly fifty articles in international journals and three books, The Economic Structure of Backward Agriculture, Macroeconomics: The Dynamics of Commodity Production, and Unconventional Economic Essays. He is on the editorial board of five technical journals in economics published from Cambridge, the Hague, Karachi, Paris and Rome.
