Dr. Prabir De​

Professor, Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS), New Delhi.​

Dr. Prabir De is a Professor at the Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS), New Delhi. He has over three and half decades of full-time research and teaching experiences in India and abroad. He works in the field of international economics and has research interests in international trade and development. He has been conducting policy research for the Government of India and several national and international organisations including UN agencies and multilateral development banks. Graduated with honours in economics from the Scottish Church College in Kolkata, he did his master’s in economics from the University of Calcutta and Ph.D. in economics from the Jadavpur University, Kolkata. He was a Visiting Fellow of the Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI); Korea Institute for International Economic Policy (KIEP); Institute of Developing Economies (IDE); and Visiting Senior Fellow of United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP). He has contributed several research papers in international journals and written books on trade and development. He is also the Founding Editor of the Journal of Asian Economic Integration, published by Sage, and Journal of Land Ports and Border Economy, published by Routledge.  ​