Radha Sinha

Radha Sinha, a graduate from Patna University, has a distinguished career throughout. He taught at Ranchi University (Jharkhand) for more than a decade before moving to the United Kingdom. After a short spell at Manchester University, he moved to Glasgow University where he taught for nearly 25 years and retired as a Professor of Political Economy. Subsequently, he was invited to take up the Chair of International Economics at Sophia University in Japan where he worked for ten years. For short periods he has also taught in Australia, Denmark, Israel, New Zealand, Sweden and the United States. Now retired, he lives in Scotland and in India.

Professor Sinha is widely acclaimed for his contributions in understanding the issues related to poverty, hunger, landlessness and income inequality. Some of his ideas developed during his service as consultant to the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) have influenced subsequent thinking in these areas. He has also made some serious contributions to the understanding of economic development in China, India and Japan.