PolyU Faculty of Business – Belt and Road Centre Public Lecture on “The Rise of Indian Economy and its Implications for China and the World”

First Distinguished Professor at the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade Prof. Sugata Marjit is the First Distinguished Professor at the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade and a Visiting Professor of Economics at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He has held previous positions as the Reserve Bank of India Chair Professor at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, India, the Sukhamay Chakravarty Chair Professor at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, India, and Vice Chancellor of Calcutta University. Prof. Marjit earned his PhD from the University of Rochester and has lectured at over fifty universities as a visiting professor, including at the Universities of Bonn, Columbia, Cornell, and others. He has been a visiting scholar at the International Monetary Fund, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, World Bank, and Asian Development Bank. He has published over 250 papers in top-tier international journals, such as the American Economic Review, and his books and edited volumes have been published by prestigious presses such as Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, and Springer-NATURE. Prof. Marjit is the recipient of three prestigious awards for Indian economists: the Mahalanobis Gold Medal (awarded to the most outstanding economist under 45), the A. L. Nagar Fellowship (awarded to the most outstanding economist between 45 and 65) by the Indian Econometric Society, and the V.K.R.V Rao National Prize for Young Social Scientist.