About the Program:

This lecture is a part of the annual BR Shenoy Memorial Lecture Series, conducted by the Economics Research Centre in collaboration with the Centre for Civil Society, which aims to memorialise Professor Shenoy’s ideas and policies through talks by speakers from India and abroad, including leading academics, policy experts, and public officials

About the Speaker:

Dr. Pravin Krishna is the Chung Ju Yung Distinguished Professor of International Economics and Business at Johns Hopkins University, where he is jointly appointed in the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington, DC and the Department of Economics in the Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences (KSAS) in Baltimore. Professor Krishna is also Co-Chair of the Bernard L. Schwartz Globalization Initiative at Johns Hopkins SAIS and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). He has also served as a consultant to the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.

Professor Krishna’s areas of research interest include international economics, international political economy, the political economy of policy reform, economic development and the political economy of India. His research has been published in numerous journals including the American Economic Review, the Journal of Political Economy, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Review of Economic Studies, the Review of Economics and Statistics, International Organization, the Journal of International Economics and the Journal of Development Economics. He has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of International Economics and the Journal of Policy Reform. A recipient of research funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF), he is the author of Trade Blocs: Economics and Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2005) and along with Jagdish Bhagwati and Arvind Panagariya is co-editor of Trading Blocs: Alternate Analyses of Preferential Trade Agreements(MIT Press, 1999). He holds a BA in Tech from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay and an MA, MPhil and PhD from Columbia University.

Lecture Topic: Trade Policy and India’s Structural Transformation

Date: Thursday, 21 November 2024

Time: 6:00 - 7:30 PM IST / 8:30 - 10:00 AM  EDT

Location: Online via Zoom and YouTube Live

BR Shenoy Memorial Lecture 2024
  • 21 Nov 2024
  • 6:00 - 7:30 PM IST / 8:30 - 10:00 AM EDT
  • Online via Zoom and YouTube Live
Registration Fee
Free
Application Deadline
18 Nov 2024
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