Prof. Ashwani Saith

Prof. Ashwani Saith
Hon. Professor

Ashwani Saith is Dean Emeritus, School of Liberal Studies, BML Munjal University, Emeritus Professor at the International Institute of Social Studies (of Erasmus University) The Hague, and Honorary Professor, Institute for Human Development. He read Economics at St. Stephen’s College, Delhi, and Trinity College, Cambridge, UK, where he obtained his Ph.D. He has been in research and teaching positions at the Delhi School of Economics; Faculty of Economics, Cambridge; Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford; and the London School of Economics, as the first Chair of Development Studies and Head of its Development Studies Institute. He has held various visiting professorships and editorial positions on leading journals and has researched and published extensively on a wide range of development themes. His recent research has been on Cambridge economics in the post-Keynesian era focussing on the purge of heterodox traditions and the rise to dominance of mainstream, neoclassical economics underpinning neoliberal ideology.