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Kunal Sen is the Director of UNU-WIDER, and is on leave as Professor of Development Economics at the Global Development Institute, University of Manchester.

He was educated at Elphinstone College, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, and Rutgers University, USA. His main research areas are economic growth, the analysis of poverty and labour markets, international trade and finance. 

Until 2011, Professor Sen was the Chair of the British Association for South Asian Studies, one of the world’s largest learned societies on South Asia. His published books include State-Business Relations and Economic Development in Africa and India; Trade Policy, Inequality and Performance in Indian Manufacturing; International Competitiveness, Investment and Finance: A Case-study of India (with A.G. Kumar and R. Vaidya); and Saving, Investment and Growth in India (with P. Athukorala). He has been awarded the Sanjaya Lall Prize in 2006 and Dudley Seers Prize in 2003 for his publications. He is a member of the ESRC Peer Review College, and South Asia Area Panel of the British Academy, as well as a Research Fellow of IZA, Bonn.