Satya R. Chakravarty... has been a Professor of Economics in the Higher Administrative Grade Scale at the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. Currently he is an honorary visiting professor at the Institute. He received a bachelor degree in Statistics in 1976, a master degree in economics in 1977 and a doctorate in economics in 1981 from the Indian Statistical Institute.

Professor Chakravarty worked as a Visiting Professor at the University of British Columbia, Canada (1984-85); the University of Karlsruhe, Germany (1988-90) with a grant from the German Research Foundation ; the Bar Ilan University, Israel (1990, 2004, 2005, 2006 & 2010) ;  the Kagawa University, Japan (1996-97 & 2000), the Paris School of Economics, Paris, France (1997-98) with a grant from the French Ministry of Education, the Chinese University of Hong Kong (1998), the Bocconi University, Milan, Italy (2002-2003 & 2006-2007), the Yokohama National University, Japan (2009), the University of International Business and Economics, Beijing, China (2012, 2014) and University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg (2019).

Little bit more... Professor Chakravarty's main areas of interest are Welfare Economics, Public Economics, Mathematical Finance, Industrial Organization and Game Theory. His work spans theoretical, empirical and policy analysis.

His Vita lists over 100 publications in prestigious scholarly journals and edited volumes, covering topics such as inequality, poverty, tax progression, deprivation, mobility, polarization, living standard, human development, migration, employment  segregation, size distributions of incomes and firms, technical efficiency, industrial concentration, merger, mathematical finance and voting games.

He has authored eleven books "Ethical Social Index Numbers", Springer Verlag, New York, 1990 (reprinted electronically, 2012), "Issues in Industrial Economics", Avebury, Brookfield, 1995 (reprinted in 1996), "Microeconomics", Allied Publishers, New Delhi, 2002 (reprinted in 2004, 2005, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2016, & 2019) and "Inequality, Polarization and Poverty: Advances in Distributional Analysis", Springer, New York, 2009, "An Outline of Financial Economics", Anthem Press, New York, 2013 (reprinted in 2014), "Econophysics of Income and Wealth Distributions" (with B. K. Chakrabarti, A. Chakraborti and A. Chatterjee), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2013, "A Course on Cooperative Game Theory" (with M.Mitra and P. Sarkar), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2015, "Inequality, Polarization and Conflict: An Analytical Study", Springer, New York, 2015, Analyzing Multidimentional Well-Being, John Wiley & Co., New Jersey, 2018 and Algorithmic Options, Algorithmic Trading and Blockchain (with P.Sarkar), Emerald Publishing Limited, UK, 2020. In 2019, Springer Nature has published a volume entitled ‘Poverty, Social Exclusion and Stochastic Dominance’ that contains some of his previously published single-authored and co-authored articles. He also co-edited two books "Quantitative Economics: Theory and Practice (with D. Coondoo and R. Mukherjee)", Allied Publishers, New Delhi, 1998 and "Econophysics & Economics of Games, Social Choices and Quantitative Techniques" (with Banasri Basu, Bikas K. Chakrabarti and Kausik Gangopadhyay), Springer-Verlag, Italia, 2009. He is an editor of  "Social Choice and Welfare", a member of the editorial boards of Journal of Economic Inequality and Review of Income and Wealth.

He  received the Mahalanobis Memorial Award of the Indian Econometric Society in 1994. This is the most coveted award for an economist  in India. He is a Fellow of the Human Development and Capability Association. A session was organized in his honor at the Eighth International Conference of the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality (ECINEQ), held at the Paris School of Economics, France, 3-5 July, 2019. The Springer Nature (2019) book “Poverty, Social Exclusion and Stochastic Dominance is among the top used publications on Springer Link that concern one or more of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

He has acted as an external adviser to the World Bank, Washington, D.C., an adviser to the National Council of Social Policy Evaluation, Maxico, expert for the United Nations Environment Program, Geneva, expert for the United Nations Development Program, New York and a consultant, Asian Development Bank, Manila, Philippines. He has also been a grantee of the Ford Foundation in 1980.