Prof. Jagdish Bhagwati is University Professor at Columbia University and Senior Fellow in International Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations.
He has been Economic Policy Adviser to Arthur Dunkel, Director General of GATT (1991-93), Special Adviser to the UN on Globalization, and External Adviser to the WTO. He has served on the Expert Group appointed by the Director General of the WTO on the Future of the WTO and the Advisory Committee to Secretary General Kofi Annan on the NEPAD process in Africa, and was also a member of the Eminent Persons Group under the chairmanship of President Fernando Henrique Cardoso on the future of UNCTAD.
Five volumes of his scientific writings and two of his public policy essays have been published by MIT press. The recipient of six festschrifts in his honor, he has also received several prizes and honorary degrees, including awards from the governments of India (Padma Vibhushan) and Japan (Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star).
Professor Bhagwati's latest book In Defense of Globalization was published by Oxford University Press in 2004 to worldwide acclaim.
Professor Bhagwati was a member of the Expert Panel for Copenhagen Consensus 2004 and Copenhagen Consensus 2008.
The Copenhagen Consensus Center has commissioned research papers from specialist climate economists, outlining the costs and benefits of each way to respond to global warming.
To help promote discussion about the best response to global warming, the Copenhagen Consensus Center has assembled an Expert Panel of stellar economists to consider the research presented here.
The five world-class economists – including three recipients of the Nobel Prize – are specialists in analyzing costs and benefits. They will meet in September to consider the research presented here, engage with the authors, and will then form conclusions about which solutions to climate change are the most promising.
