Sugata Marjit Explained

Sugata Marjit
Native Name:	সুগত মারজিৎ
Office:	51st Vice Chancellor of Calcutta University (acting)
Term:	15 July 2015 - 14 July 2016
Predecessor:	Prof. Suranjan Das
Successor:	Prof. Ashutosh Ghosh
Birth Date:	4 December 1959
Nationality:	Indian
Field:	International economics, Macroeconomics

Sugata Marjit is the former Vice Chancellor of the University of Calcutta and currently the First Distinguished Professor at Indian Institute of Foreign Trade^[1] and the Project Director^[2] of Centre for Training & Research in Public Finance and Policy (CTRPFP), a Ministry of Finance, Government of India funded initiative. He did his Ph.D. at the University of Rochester and is currently the Editor of South Asian Journal of Macroeconomics and Public Finance.^[3] He used to be the Director^[4] of Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata, from March 2007 to March 2012 and Reserve Bank of India Chair Professor of Industrial Economics at CSSSC^[5] till September, 2019. On 15 July 2015 he took the charge as an interim Vice-Chancellor^[6] of the prestigious University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India.

Awards and honors

• Recipient of the Panchanan Chakravarty Memorial Award (1999) awarded by the Bengal Economic Association for promoting teaching and research in West Bengal, India
• Mahalanobis Memorial Medal, Indian Econometric Society, 2002
• Recipient of the best paper award US$10000 from the Global Development Network (World Bank) on the theme "Globalization and Inequality" (2003)
• V.K.R.V. Rao National Award for Young Social Scientist (Economics, 2003) by the Indian Council of Social Science Research (Ministry of HRD., Govt. of India)
• External Research Fellow - Nottingham Centre for Research on Globalization and Economic Policy(GEP), University of Nottingham (2008 -) ^[7]
• Prof. AL Nagar Fellow, Indian Econometric Society, 2020

Publications

Books

• Book: Marjit . Sugata . Raychaudhuri . Ajitava . India's exports: an analytical study . Oxford University Press . Delhi New York . 1997 . 9780195642353 . registration .
• Book: Marjit . Sugata . Acharyya . Rajat . International trade, wage inequality and the developing economy: a general equilibrium approach . Physica-Verlag . Heidelberg New York . 2003 . 9783790800319 .
• Book: Marjit . Sugata . Singh . Nirvikar . Joint ventures, international investment and technology transfer . Oxford University Press . New Delhi New York . 2003 . 9780195648027 .
• Book: Marjit, Sugata . International trade and economic development: essays in theory and policy . Oxford University Press . New Delhi . 2008 . 9780195691719 .
• Book: Marjit . Sugata . Mallick . Indrajit . Financial intermediation in a less developed economy the history of the United Bank of India . Sage . New Delhi, India . 2008 . 9781281963604 .
• Book: Marjit . Sugata . Kar . Saibal . The Outsiders" Economic Reform and Informal Labour in a Developing Economy . Oxford University Press . New Delhi, India . 2011 . 9780198071495 .
• Marjit, Sugata; Mandal, Biswajit; Nakanishi, Noritsugu (2020). "Virtual Trade and Comparative Advantage : The Fourth Dimension". Springer Nature. Springer Singapore. .
• Marjit, Sugata; Das, Gouranga G.; Mandal, Biswajit (2023). "Virtual Trade in a Changing World : Comparative Advantage, Growth and Inequality". Cambridge University Press.

Notes and References

1. Web site: IIFT.
2. Web site: Faculty.
3. Web site: South Asian Journal of Macroeconomics and Public Finance. 28 October 2015.
4. Web site: Archived copy . 2015-07-15 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150716075106/http://www.ctrpfp.ac.in/cv_marjit_Jan_2014.pdf . 16 July 2015 . dmy-all .
5. Web site: Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta.
6. Web site: দায়িত্ব নিলেন সুগত মারজিত্.
7. Web site: External Research Fellows - the University of Nottingham.