Meghnad Jagdishchandra Desai
Meghnad Jagdishchandra Desai, Lord Desai, was born on the 10th July 1940 in Vadodara, Gujarat, India. He is an economist and Labour Party politician.
Political Career
Desai was chairman of the British Labour Party from 1986-1992. He was also made Honorary Lifetime and President of Islington South and Finsbury Constituency Labour Party in London. He was finally made a life peer in April 1991, receiving the title Baron Desai, of St Clement Danes in the City of Westminster. During his time in parliament, Desai served on a number of committees. The last committee he served on was the Intergovernmental Organisations Committee from 2007-2008.
Education
He studied his masters at the University of Mumbai. After this he won a scholarship to the University of Pennsylvania were he went on to complete his PHD in 1963.
Notable Work
Desai is currently chairman of the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum advisory board. The institution is an independent financial think tank which serves as an unbiased, non-lobbying platform for exchanges among official institutions and private sector counterparties worldwide. His first book was released in 1973 with the title ‘Marxian Economic Theory’. He has also published a biography of Indian film star Dilip Kumar in 2004.
