Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta

Emeritus Professor of Economics at Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge

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Frank Ramsey Emeritus Professor of Economics, University of Cambridge
Professorial Research Fellow at the University of Manchester

Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta is Frank Ramsey Emeritus Professor of Economics at the University of Cambridge and a Professorial Research Fellow at the University of Manchester. Professor Dasgupta taught at the London School of Economics before moving to Cambridge in 1985, becoming Chairman of the Faculty of Economics from 1997 to 2001. Since 2008 he has been a Professorial Research Fellow at the Sustainable Consumption Institute at the University of Manchester. He is a co-founder of the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk.

Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta is a Fellow of the Royal Society, a Fellow of the British Academy, and a Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of Sciences.

Dame Tamara Finkelstein

Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (Defra)

Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge

Emeritus Professor of Economics

  • 15 February 2024, 6:15pm

    The economics of biodiversity - CUSPE Lecture

    In 2019, Professor Dasgupta was commissioned by the UK Treasury to produce an independent review on the Economics of Biodiversity. This review has helped set the agenda for the UK Government’s 25-year environment plan.

  • 21 June 2021, 4pm

    A Virtual Dialogue: How economics can save the world

    A joint event with the Natural History Museum in Berlin: With our current economic system, we are consuming huge amounts of resources and destroying the web of life on earth. The recently published Dasgupta Review, commissioned by the UK Treasury, shows in 604 pages that biodiversity conservation must become a permanent feature in all areas of policy and the economy. Protecting nature's invaluable contributions to humankind is the critical challenge of the coming decades.

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    Sustainable Humanity, Sustainable Environment, Our Responsibility

    The penultimate session of the Climate and Sustainability in Multiple Dimensions seminar series saw talks from Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta, Professor Charles Kennel and Lord Martin Rees on the relationship between humanity and nature, and its implications for sustainability.