Sanjeev Goyal
Sanjeev Goyal | |
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Goyal in March 2007 | |
| Alma mater | University of Delhi Cornell University |
| Known for | Economic theory Networks |
| Awards | National Talent Scholar Gold Medal, Delhi Univ. |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Microeconomics |
| Institutions | Erasmus University University of London |
| Doctoral advisor | David Easley Lawrence E. BlumeKarl Shell |
Sanjeev Goyal FBA is an Indian-British economist, best known for his pioneering research on networks.
He is currently Arthur C. Pigou Professor of Economics at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge. He received a BA (Honours, 1983) from Delhi University and an MA (1989) and PhD (1990) from Cornell University, all in economics. His book, Connections: an introduction to the economics of networks, was published by Princeton University Press in 2007; his second book, Networks: An Economics Approach, was published by MIT Press in 2023.
Sanjeev Goyal is a Fellow of the British Academy and Fellow of the Econometric Society. He was the founding Director of the Cambridge-INET Institute (2012–2014) and Chair of the Cambridge Economics Faculty (2014–2018).