Professor Srikanta Chatterjee

Professor Srikanta Chatterjee is an emeritus professor of economics in the School of Economics and Finance of Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand.

Professor Srikanta Chatterjee is an emeritus professor of economics in the School of Economics and Finance of Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand. Prior to his retirement in 2011, Professor Chatterjee had held a personal chair in economics in this department since 1995, having taught here since 1981. He has also lived and worked in Australia, India, Fiji, Japan and the UK, and been a visiting academic in several other countries.

His areas of teaching have been micro- and macroeconomic theory, international economics, international finance, international business, development economics, public sector economics, taxation, and the economies of New Zealand and the Asia-pacific. His research and publications have covered a wide variety of areas including international economics, applied demand analysis, income distribution and inequality, comparative perspectives on the Indian and Chinese economic performance, issues of India’s food and nutrition security, the economic performance of the Asia-Pacific economies, and the economic reform of New Zealand.

After retirement, Professor Chatterjee has widened his studies and research to include international relations, security, geopolitics and geo-economics, the political and cultural history of India, and the lives and works of eminent personalities of the Indian renaissance. He has been addressing lectures and seminars and publishing in these subjects.

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