Jayati Ghosh has been a Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst since January of 2021. She also taught economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi. In 2021 the United Nations named her to be on the High-level Advisory Board on Economic and Social Affairs. She has authored and/or edited 19 books, including the co-edited Elgar Handbook of Alternative Theories of Economic Development in 2014. She has received several national and international prizes, including the International Labour Organisation’s Decent Work Research Prize for 2010. She has advised governments in India and other countries, including as Chairperson of the Andhra Pradesh Commission on Farmers’ Welfare in 2004, and Member of the National Knowledge Commission of India (2005-09). She is the Executive Secretary of International Development Economics Associates, an international network of heterodox development economists.