Santosh Mehrotra

Quick Facts

Full Name	Santosh Mehrotra
Occupation	Economist
Date Of Birth	Jul 30, 1955(1955-07-30)
Age	69
Birthplace	Lucknow
Country	India
Birth City	Uttar Pradesh
Horoscope	Leo

Santosh Mehrotra Biography

Santosh Mehrotra is one of the most popular and richest Economist who was born on July 30, 1955 in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India.

Santosh Mehrotra (Lucknow, U.P. India, 30 July 1955) is a human development economist, whose research and writings have had most influence in the areas of labour, employment, skill development, child poverty, and the economics of education. He was an economic adviser in the United Nations system in New York City, Italy, and Thailand (1991–2006), and technocrat in the government of India (2006–2014), apart from making contributions to academic research since the mid-1980s. He has also in recent years established a reputation as an institution-builder in the field of research in India, despite facing difficult odds. He brings a combination of professional experience: with the Indian government as a policy maker and adviser, with international organisations as a technical expert, having lived on three continents and travelled to 63 countries providing technical advice to governments; and as an academic whose research work has been translated into French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and German.

Finishing the PhD in 1985 he returned to India to a life in academia. In 1988 he became Associate Professor, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

Santosh Mehrotra Net Worth

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

Mehrotra was the son of an officer of the Indian Administrative Service. He had most of his early education in schools in Lucknow, including the historic La Martiniere College. He finished his schooling in Allahabad, the university town. His mother, herself a poet in Hindi, from Allahabad, had grown up surrounded by stories of the nationalist movement against the British, and both parents imbued him with a deep sense of nationalism. She was the daughter of a distinguished lawyer, who was Mayor of Allahabad. Her father, KP Kakkar had defeated Motilal Nehru, the father of India’s first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, in the city elections to the Mayor-ship in 1922.

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He was the only Indian economist on the international review panel of the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation 2009–10. He was a member of the World Bank’s High Level Advisory Panel, Washington, DC, in 2011 to advise IDA/World Bank on criteria for selecting projects for conducting Impact Evaluations. For the World Bank he was invited by its Independent Evaluation Group prepare a paper on the state of evaluation in India.

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Sem Ranked on the list of most popular Economist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in India. Santosh Mehrotra celebrates birthday on July 30 of every year.

He also held a three-year appointment as Parkin Visiting Professor at the Centre for International Development in the Faculty of Social Sciences, at the University of Bath, UK (2010–13).