Padma Desai
Gladys and Roland Harriman Professor Emerita of Comparative Economic Systems; Director, Center for Transition Economies
Padma Desai is Gladys and Roland Harriman Professor Emerita of Comparative Economic Systems and Director of the Center for Transition Economies. Her interests span Soviet economy, Russian and transition economy reforms, econometric analyses of the impact of Russia’s nonpayment crisis, and the East Asian currency meltdown. She received her Ph.D. in economics in 1960 from Harvard University, where she began her teaching career.