Badal Mukhopadhyay (aka Mukherji) had joined as Mentor in the Department of Policy and Management Studies as a Mentor from August 2022.
He joined Delhi School of Economics in January 1973, right after completing his doctoral degree under the legendary economist Prof Paul Samuelson at the M.I.T.. He spent all of the next thirty-two years at the DSE, nurturing his students. Subsequently he taught at JNU and TERI University by launching the M.A (Economics) program in the latter.
He has contributed to a range of areas in economics including the Theory of Economic Growth, Agricultural Economics, Game Theory , Economics of a Mixed Economy, and Islamic Economics. He also co-authored with Swapna Mukhopadhyay the biography of their son,’ Ali’s World’.
He is widely respected loved by the student community not only for his deep knowledge of the subject but also for his extra-ordinary generosity.
