Arun Kumar

Arun Kumar is a veteran Indian economist. He studied at the Delhi University, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) and Princeton University, the US, and taught economics at JNU for three decades, until 2015. His areas of interest include public finance, development economics, public policy and macroeconomics. Kumar has written widely on these subjects, both in the popular press and in academic journals. He was the Malcolm S. Adiseshiah chair professor at the Institute of Social Sciences, New Delhi. Prof Arun Kumar was also former President of JNU Teachers’ Association