Biography

Meghnad Desai was born on July 10, 1940 in Vadodara, Baroda State, British India. He was an actor, known for Life Goes On (2009), The Sunday Programme (1994) and The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power (1992). He was married to Kishwar Desai and Gail Wilson. He died on July 29, 2025.

Desai earned his PhD in economics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1963.

In 1991, Meghnad Desai was appointed to the House of Lords as a Labour Party peer.

He moved to London in 1965, joining the London School of Economics as a lecturer and later becoming a professor and professor emeritus.

Indian-born British economist.