Meghnad Desai

Lord Desai was raised to the peerage as Baron Desai, of St Clement Danes in the City of Westminster in 1991. He is affiliated with the Labour Party.

Lord Desai attended University of Bombay and the University of Pennsylvania. 

He is a member of AUT and the Chair of the Management Committee of City Roads. His career accomplishments include serving as an Associate specialist with the Department of Agricultural Economics, and Lecturer in Economics at the London School of Economics.

He has served as the Opposition Spokesperson on Health and Treasury and Economic Affairs, and has four honorary doctorates. Lord Desai has special interests in economic policy, education and development, and is also the author of several publications on economics.

He unsuccessfully stood for the Speaker in the British House of Lords in 2011, the first ever non-UK born candidate to do so.

He was awarded the Padma Bhushan, the third highest civilian award in the Republic of India, in 2008.

He is married to Gail Graham Wilson, and together they have one son and two daughters.

Contact Details:

London school of Economics
Houghton Street
Aldwych
London
WC2A 2AE

Tel: 020 7955 7489
Email: m.desai@lse.ac.uk