Partha Dasgupta
Award Name : Blue Planet Prize
Year of Award : 2015
Award for : Environment
Location : Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
Sir Partha Sarathi Dasgupta (born 17 November 1942), is the Frank Ramsey Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom;Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge; and Professorial Research Fellow at the University of Manchester. He was born in Dhaka, Bangladesh, then moved to India, and is the son of the noted economist A.K. Dasgupta.He received Blue Planet Prize in 2015.