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Professor Partha Dasgupta was born in Dhaka（capital of Bangladesh now and at that time in India）and attended Cambridge after completing his undergraduate education at the University of Delhi in India.Professor Dasgupta received his PhD in Economics in 1968，and currently he is the Frank Ramsey Professor of Economics at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of St.John's College，Cambridge.
Professor Dasgupta is an internationally renowned economist，and he has received many honors for his contributions to welfare economics；development economics；technological change；population，environmental and resource economics and game theory.Professor Dasgupta is a Fellow of the British Academy，Fellow of the Third World Academy of Sciences，Member of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences，Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of Sciences，Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences，Foreign Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences，and he is a Past President of the Royal Economic Society and the European Economic Association.Professor Dasgupta was named Knight Bachelor by Queen Elizabeth II in 2002，won the 2002Volvo Environment Prize and the 2004Kenneth E.Boulding Memorial Award of the International Society for Ecological Economics，and received the John Kenneth Galbraith Award of the American Agricultural Economics Association in 2007.In a rare honor，in 2004he was elected to the Royal Society，the oldest and most influential academy in the world.Fellows of the Royal Society include giants in the scientific history such as Isaac Newton，Charles Darwin，and Albert Einstein.Every year the Fellows elect 44new Fellows，and there are now 1，300in total.In the past the Fellows were from scientific and mathematical fields，and Professor Dasgupta is the first economist in the 350years of the Royal Society's history to be elected a Fellow.He is very likely to win the Nobel Prize in Economics for his remarkable contributions to environmental and resource economics.
Professor Dasgupta was born into an Indian family of economists in 1942.His father Amiya Dasgupta，who received his PhD at the London School of Economics in England，taught economics in India from 1926，and was respected as the father of modern economics and the ‘economists’economist'in India.He had numerous students，including Amartya Sen，the winner of the 1998Nobel Prize.Professor Dasgupta's father-in-law was the 1977Nobel Prize laureate James Meade.However，Professor Dasgupta studied theoretical physics at the University of Delhi，and mathematics when he first arrived at Cambridge.He did not switch to economics until 1965.At that time，the 1996Nobel Prize winner Professor James Mirrlees received his PhD in Economics at the University of Cambridge and held the position of Lecturer at the department of economics.Professor Dasgupta asked Professor Mirrlees to be his supervisor，partly due to their common background in mathematics.Within three years，Professor Dasgupta completed three papers and received his PhD in 1968.
Like many other internationally renowned Indian economists，Professor Dasgupta's reputation as a theoretical economist rests on his strong mathematical training.However，his economic research is not purely theoretical，but explores the development of human society and human nature.Teaching at Stanford University from 1989to 1992he was jointly appointed as professor of economics and philosophy，and he also served as the Director of the Program in Ethics.In 1995，the Oxford University Press launched a series of books