Prasanta Pattanaik

Prasanta Kumar Pattanaik
Born (1943-04-05) 5 April 1943
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Delhi
InfluencesAmartya Sen
Academic work
DisciplineSocial choice theory and microeconomic theory
InstitutionsUniversity of California
AwardsPadma Shri

Prasanta Kumar Pattanaik (born 5 April 1943), is an Indian-American emeritus professor at the Department of Economics at the University of California. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society.

Along with Amartya Sen and Kenneth Arrow, Pattanaik is an advisory editor for the journal Social Choice and Welfare.

He is a recipient of the Padma Shri award of 2020 by the Government of India in Literature and Education.