# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kaushik-basu
# Generated: 2026-09-07T18:59:40.753Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kaushik-basu"
name: "Kaushik Basu"
slug: "kaushik-basu"
description: "Kaushik Basu is an Indian economist who was Chief Economist of the World Bank from 2012 to 2016 and Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India from 2009 to 2012. He is the C. Marks Professor of International Studies and Professor of Economics at Cornell University, and academic advisory board member of upcoming Plaksha University. He began a three-year term as President of the International Economic Association in June 2017. From 2009 to 2012, during the United Progressive Alliance's second term, Basu served as the Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India. Basu is winner of the Humboldt Research Award 2021."
tagline: "Indian economist and academic"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kaushik_Basu_-_Festival_Economia_2013.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "IN"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
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birthDate: "1952-01-09"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  momentum:             5.956937799043062
  historical:           11.268004
  currentAttention:     33.09409888357256
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump