Sugata Marjit, former Vice-Chancellor of the Calcutta University, specializes in Trade and Economic Development. He has published more than 250 articles in high impact journals including the American Economic Review, Journal of Economic Theory, ET, Journal of International Economics, Journal of Development Economics, European Economic Review, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization etc. He has been a distinguished Visiting Professor to top universities across the globe and received top national awards as an Indian economist. He is a recipient of the Panchanan Chakrabarty memorial award for contributions to teaching and research in Bengal; Mahalanobis Gold Medal of the Indian Econometric Society (2002), awarded to the most outstanding Indian economist below 45; the VKRV Rao National Prize as a young Social Scientist (2003, ICSSR) and the A. L. Nagar Fellowship awarded to the most outstanding economist between the age group of 45 to 65 by the Indian Econometric Society and the only one so far to receive all the above awards.
Biswajit Mandal teaches Economics in Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan, India. He is the former Deputy Dean of Vidya Bhavana (Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences) of Visva Bharati, Santiniketan. He is a recipient of National Scholarship from the Government of India and Junior Research Fellowship by the University Grants Commission, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Fellowship from the Government of Japan. He was a visiting C. V. Raman Fellow at the Department of Economics of University at Albany-SUNY, Albany, NY, USA. He also taught at the Soka University, Tokyo, University of Calcutta, Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, Rabindra Bharati University, St. Xavier’s College Kolkata. His primary area of research is international trade and development, health economics and applied econometrics in health economics. Journals like Review of Development Economics, International Journal of Economic Theory, Economic & Politics, Economic Modelling, International Review of Economics & Finance, IEJ, GEJ, EAER, IERE, IGDR, Journal of Quantitative Economics etc. He regularly writes for Bengali daily Ei Samay. He is now serving as the Associate Editor of South Asian Journal of Macroeconomics and Public Finance, and the Book Review Editor of Journal of Asian Economic Integration. He is one of the Editors of ArthaBisleson, a national journal published in Bengali.