NRI Padma Desai
has been nominated for Padma Bhushan, 2008
New Delhi, Jan 26, 2008
Surinder Malhotra/ Gary Singh, LA
Padma Desai is an American professor
and director of the Center for Transition Economies at Columbia
University, USA, has been awarded Padma Bhushan, 2008
She is a member of the Council on
Foreign Relations, and was U.S. Treasury?s Advisor to the Russian
Finance Ministry. President of the Association for Comparative
Economic Studies (2001) and US Treasury’s Advisor to the
Russian Finance Ministry (1995). She said,
"I am delighted to be honoured by India and also feel proud
to have broken into what I thought was a male preserve in my husband's
family."
Professor Desai has published extensively in professional journal.
Her work has also appeared in the 'New York Times', the 'Financial
Times', and the 'Wall Street Journal'.
She is regarded as a leading scholar today on the Soviet Union
and Russia, while her writings extend also to the problems of
other transition and emerging market economies.
Her main books with leading publishers include Marxism, Central
Planning and the Soviet Economy (ed)
(The MIT Press, 1983); The Soviet Economy: Problems and Prospects
(Blackwell, 1987); Perestroika in Perspective: The Design and
Dilemmas of Soviet Reform (Princeton University Press, 1989);
Going Global: Transition from Plan to Market in the World Economy
(ed) (The MIT Press, 1997); and (jointly with Todd Idson) Work
Without Wages: Russia’s Nonpayment Crisis (The MIT Press,
2000).
Her Financial Crisis, Contagion, and Containment: From Asia to
Argentina (Princeton University Press, 2003) was described by
Paul Krugman as the ‘best book yet on financial crises’.Her
Conversations on Russia, published by Oxford University Press,
was selected as a Best Book of 2006 by The Financial Times and
her C.V. Starr Lecture on it was taped and broadcast by C-Span
Book TV. She has combined scholarly publications in the leading
professional journals with frequent writings in the The Wall Street
Journal, The New York Times and The Financial Times and many appearances
on the MacNeil-Lehrer News Hour, CNN, BBC, Debates-Debates, Bloomberg
TV, Jim Lehrer News Hour, and the Charlie Rose Show.
