Satya R. Chakravarty... is a Professor of Economics in the Higher Administrative Grade Scale at the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. 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) and the Yokohama National University, Japan (2009).

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 80 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 four books "Ethical Social Index Numbers", Springer Verlag, New York, 1990, "Issues in Industrial Economics", Avebury, Brookfield, 1995 (reprinted in 1996), "Microeconomics", Allied Publishers, New Delhi, 2002 (reprinted in 2004, 2005, 2008 & 2010) and "Inequality, Polarization and Poverty: Advances in Distributional Analysis", Springer, New York, 2009. 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 a member of the editorial board of  "The Journal of Economic Inequality" and a member of the advisory board for the book series "Economic Studies in Inequality, Social Exclusion and Well-Being", Springer-Verlag. Professor Chakravarty is a Co-Editor of the Economics e-Journal, Kiel Institute for the World Economy.

He  received the Mahalanobis Memorial Award of the Indian Econometric Society in 1994. This is most coveted award for an economist  in India. He is a Fellow of the Human Development and Capability Association. He has acted as an external adviser to the World Bank, Washington, D.C., and as an adviser to the National Council of Social Policy Evaluation, Maxico. He has also been a grantee of the Ford Foundation in 1980.