| Debapriya Bhattacharya | |
| Occupation: | Economist |
| Parents: | Debesh Bhattacharya Chitra Bhattacharya |
| Alma Mater: | Plekhanov Institute of the National Economy |
Debapriya Bhattacharya is an economist and public policy analyst from Bangladesh. He was the first executive director of Centre for Policy Dialogue in Dhaka. He also worked as a senior research fellow at Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS). [1]
Bhattacharya's father, Debesh Bhattacharya, was a lawmaker. He served as a Supreme Court jurist. Bhattacharya's mother, Chitra Bhattacharya, was a member of parliament of the government of Bangladesh during 1996 to 2001. Bhattacharya attended St Gregory's High School and Dhaka College. He earned his MSc and PhD in economics at the Plekhanov Institute of the National Economy, Moscow.[2]
Bhattacharya served as an executive director of the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD). In 2007 Bhattacharya was appointed Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the WTO and UN Office in Geneva.[3] A year later he resigned from the post citing "moral and ethical grounds".[4]