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Prof. Manoj Pant is a distinguished economist and academic leader, formerly Director and Vice Chancellor of the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (20172022). A graduate of St. Stephens College and the Delhi School of Economics, he earned his Ph.D. from Southern Methodist University, USA. With over four decades of teaching and research experience, including as Professor and Dean at Jawaharlal Nehru University, he has published extensively in international journals and authored four books. His expertise spans international trade theory, foreign investment, competition policy, and the WTO. Prof. Pant has also served on key government committees, contributed to national policy discussions, and writes regularly on economic issues in leading business dailies.
A graduate of St. Stephen’s College, Delhi University, Prof. Manoj Pant completed his M.A. from the Delhi School of Economics 1973- 1975 and taught economics in Delhi University till 1979. He completed Ph.D. from the Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, USA, 1979-1982. From 1985, he was a faculty member of the Centre for International Trade and Development, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India and Professor of Economics and Dean, School of International Studies, JNU till Sept. 2017. In Sept. 2017, he was selected as Director and Vice Chancellor, Indian institute of Foreign Trade and completed his term in Nov. 2022. He has also been a guest lecturer in business schools of Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow and the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, IIFT, Delhi, University of Lucerne, Switzerland and a visiting Fulbright scholar at the Deptt. of Economics, Columbia University, Massachusetts, USA.
Prof. Pant has about 40 publications in international referred journals and four books. Apart from his academic pursuits, Prof. Pant has spoken extensively at various public forums of organizations like UNCTAD, OXFAM and other non- governmental organizations on issues relating to trade negotiations, investment and competition policy. He has been an expert member of a number of committees in the Ministry of Commerce, consultant on trade issues in the Planning Commission, Chairman of the Project Review Committee, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research etc. Prof. Pant also writes extensively on Economic Policy issues in, The Economic Times, Financial Express and Mint Business papers. In 2017, he was conferred the Kautilya award for Economics for the year 2017 by the Uttar Pradesh Economics Association. In April 2022 he received the Distinguished Alumnus award from the Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University.
His fields of interest are International Trade Theory, Foreign Investment, Competition Policy and the WTO.
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