Deepak Nayyar is Professor of Economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Earlier he has taught economics at the University of Oxford, the University of Sussex and the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta. He was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Delhi from 2000 to 2005. His distinguished career in academia has been interspersed with short periods in the government. He was, to start with, in the Indian Administrative Service. For some time, he worked as Economic Adviser in the Ministry of Commerce. Later, he was Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India and Secretary in the Ministry of Finance. He was educated at St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi. Thereafter, as a Rhodes Scholar, he went on to study at Balliol College, University of Oxford, where he obtained a B. Phil and a D. Phil in Economics. Deepak Nayyar is an Honorary Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford. He is Chairman of the Board of Governors of the World Institute for Development Economics Research, UNU-WIDER, Helsinki. He is Vice President of the International Association of Universities, Paris. And he is Chairman of the Sameeksha Trust, which publishes Economic and Political Weekly. He served on the Board of Directors of the Social Science Research Council in the United States from 2001 to 2007 and as Chairman of the Advisory Council for the Department of International Development, Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford, from 2004 to 2007. He has received the VKRV Rao award for his contribution to research in Economics. He has been President of the Indian Economic Association. He is also on the Editorial Board of several professional journals. He has served as a member of many commissions, committees and boards: both national and international. He is a member of the National Knowledge Commission in India. He has been a Member of the World Commission on the Social Dimension of Globalization. He was a Director on the Boards of State Trading Corporation of India, State Bank of India, Export-Import Bank of India and Maruti Udyog. At present, he is a Director on the Boards of ICRA and SAIL. His research interests are primarily in the areas of international economics, macroeconomics and development economics. He has published papers and books on a wide range of subjects, including trade policies, industrialization strategies, macroeconomic stabilization, structural adjustment, economic liberalization, trade theory, macro policies, international migration and the multilateral trading system. In addition, he has written extensively on economic development in India. Globalization and development is an area of focus in his present research.