Meghnad Desai is Emeritus
Professor of Economics at the London
School of Economics and Political
Science, and a Member of the House
of Lords. Professor Lord Desai was
born in India, studied at the
University of Bombay, and received
his PhD at the University of
Pennsylvania. He taught at the
London School of Economics since
1965, was made a Professor of
Economics at the LSE in 1983 and
established the Centre for the Study
of Global Governance in 1992. His
latest book is Marx’s Revenge: The
Resurgence of Capitalism and the Death of
Statist Socialism.