Amit Bhaduri was educated in Presidency College, Calcutta; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, U.S.A.; and Cambridge University, U.K. Bhaduri received his PhD from Cambridge in 1967. Since then he has taught in many universities in India, including Delhi School of Economics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, and Indian Institute of Management. He has also been a professor in many universities around the world, including El Colegio de Mexico, Stanford University, Vienna and Linz University, Bremen University, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, and Bologna University. He has worked in several committees and countries for the United Nations published more than seventy articles in journals of economics, and written six books—some of which have been translated into several European and Asian languages. He has also served on the editorial boards of several international journals. Currently he is professor emeritus at Jawaharlal Nehru University; visiting professor at the Indian Council of Social Development, New Delhi; and professor at Pavia University, Italy.