Deepak Nayyar

Deepak Nayyar (born 26 September 1946) is an Indian economist and an academic. He is currently Chair of the Board of Trustees, Institute for Development Studies, Sussex, United Kingdom (since August 2020); Emeritus Professor of Economics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi; Honorary Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford; and Distinguished Fellow, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi. Earlier, he taught at the University of Oxford, the University of Sussex, the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (IIM-C). He also served as Vice-Chancellor, University of Delhi.

Nayyar was Distinguished University Professor of Economics, New School for Social Research, New York. He was invited to the Kluge Chair in Countries and Cultures of the South at the United States Library of Congress in Washington DC for 2022-23. Nayyar’s professional life in academia has been interspersed with time in the world of public policy and in government.

Before turning to academics, Nayyar was a Member of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS), and worked in the State of Uttar Pradesh (1969 to 1973). Later, he served as Economic Adviser to the Ministry of Commerce in the Government of India (1983 to 1985) and, subsequently, as Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India and Secretary, Ministry of Finance, New Delhi (1989 to 1991).