The Speaker

Meghnad Jagdishchandra Desai studied at the University of Bombay, and completed his PhD at the University of Pennsylvania. From 1984-1991, he was co-editor of the Journal of Applied Econometrics. He has been both Chair and President of Islington South and Finsbury Constituency Labour Party in London. On 30 April 1991, he was created Lord Desai of St Clement Danes. He is currently Chairman of the Trustee’s Board for Training for Life, Chairman of the Management Board of City Roads and on the Board of Tribune magazine. He is Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science and he is currently the Director of the Centre for the Study of Global Governance, London School of Economics.