Kaushik Basu

Quick Facts

Full Name	Kaushik Basu
Occupation	Economist
Date Of Birth	Jan 9, 1952(1952-01-09)
Age	72
Birthplace	Kolkata
Country	India
Birth City	West Bengal
Horoscope	Capricorn

Kaushik Basu Biography

Kaushik Basu is one of the most popular and richest Economist who was born on January 9, 1952 in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. The renown Indian economist who was later an Executive Vice President, Chief Economic Officer for the World Bank and Chief Economic Advisor to India.

He as well as Noble Prize winner He and Noble Prize winner Amartya Sen are both economists from India. are both economists from India.

Kaushik Basu was born in Kolkata, India and schooled at St. Xavier’s Collegiate School, Kolkata. In an autobiographical essay he noted that finishing school in 1969 he was caught in a dilemma. His father wanted him to study physics. But those were revolutionary times and he wanted to study nothing. They settled on economics as half-way compromise between physics and nothing. In 1969 he moved to Delhi to do his undergraduate studies in Economics (Honors), from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi. He then went on to the London School of Economics, to do his MSc in Economics completing it in 1974. After earning his master’s degree, Basu was supposed to move to England to study law and take over his father’s legal practice, but he had fallen in love with the concept of logic and deductive reasoning and became fascinated by Amartya Sen’s work. He remained at the London School of Economics for his PhD, from 1974 to 1976. He completed his PhD on choice theory under the tutelage of Amartya Sen. He has received honorary doctorates from Lucknow University, Lucknow, in 2011, Assam University, Silchar, in 2012, Fordham University, New York, in 2013, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, in 2013, University of Bath, U.K., in 2016, on the occasion of the University’s fiftieth anniversary, and the Jadavpur University Kolkata in 2018.

On completing his PhD in London, Basu lectured briefly at Reading University, and returned to India in 1977, to be Reader in Economics and, later, Professor of Economics at the Delhi School of Economics. Over the years Basu has held visiting professorships at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University, the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, the Université catholique de Louvain’s Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE) in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, and the London School of Economics, where he was a distinguished visitor in 1993. Additionally, he was a visiting scientist at the Indian Statistical Institute, a public university in Kolkata, India.

He had children with the names Karna as well as Diksha.

Kaushik Basu Net Worth

Kaushik Basu is one of the richest Economist from India. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Kaushik Basu 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He was awarded his Ph.D. London School of Economics in the year 1976.

He was given his Padma Bhushan, which is the third-highest civilian award given in India. Republic of India.

Kaushik Basu (born 9 January 1952) is an Indian economist who was Chief Economist of the World Bank from 2012 to 2016. He is the Carl Marks Professor of International Studies and Professor of Economics at Cornell University, and began a three-year term as President of the International Economic Association in June 2017. From 2009 to 2012, during the United Progressive Alliance’s second term, Basu served as the Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India.

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On 5 September 2012, he was appointed Chief Economist at the World Bank.

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Kaushik Ranked on the list of most popular Economist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in India. Kaushik Basu celebrates birthday on January 9 of every year.