Prof. VKRV Rao Chair Professors

Sl.No.

Name

Year

Prof. Kaliappa Kalirajan
Crawford School of Public Policy
The Australian National University
Canberra, Australia

2

Prof. Kunal Sen

Director, UNU-WIDER, (United Nations University, World Institute for Development Economics Research) and is a Professor of Development Economics at the Global Development Institute, University of Manchester

2020-2022

3

Prof. Michael Goldman
Professor of sociology and Global studies at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

2016-2017

4

Prof. David E Bloom
Clarence James Gamble Professor of Economics and Demography, Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard University

2013-2014

5

Prof. Gita Gopinath
Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Harvard University

2012-2012

6

Prof. Ashutosh Varshney
Professor, Department of Political Science, Brown University

2010-2011

7

Prof. Michael Walton
Senior Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Policy Research, Delhi and Adjunct Lecturer in International Development at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

2008-2009

8

Prof. James Gilmore Manor
Professorial Fellow, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex

2006-2007

9

Prof. Ravi Kanbur
T. H. Lee Professor of World Affairs and Professor of Economics at Cornell University

2004-2005

10

Prof. Arvind Panagariya
Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, University of Maryland

2002-2003

11

Prof. Kaushik Basu
Carl Marks Professor, Cornell University

1999–2001

12

Prof. T. N. Srinivasan
Chairman, Department of Economics, Yale University

1997-1998