Jagdish Bhagwati is the leading international trade theorist of his generation and an expert on India.  He is senior fellow for international economics at the Council on Foreign Relations, and University Professor at Columbia University.  

Professor Bhagwati has authored or edited over fifty scholarly and popular books. He also writes frequently for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Financial Times, as well as reviews for The New Republic and The Times Literary Supplement. His most recent book Termites in the Trading System discusses the deleterious effects of preferential trading agreements. His previous book In Defense of Globalization attracted worldwide acclaim.  

He has been economic policy adviser to Arthur Dunkel, director-general of GATT, special adviser to the UN on globalization, and external adviser to the WTO. He has served on the expert group appointed by the director-general of the WTO on the future of the WTO, and the advisory committee to Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the NEPAD process in Africa.  He was also a member of the Eminent Persons Group under the chairmanship of President Fernando Henrique Cardoso on the future of UNCTAD.