Background
Ray, Debraj was born on September 3, 1957 in Calcutta. Came to the United States, 1991. Son of Kalyan Kumar and Radha (Choudhuri) Ray.
Ray, Debraj was born on September 3, 1957 in Calcutta. Came to the United States, 1991. Son of Kalyan Kumar and Radha (Choudhuri) Ray.
Ray graduated with a bachelor of arts degree in economics from the University of Calcutta in 1977. He obtained a master"s degree (1981) and a Doctor of Philosophy (1983) from Cornell University, where his doctoral supervisor was Mukul Majumdar. He wrote his doctoral thesis about intertemporal economics.
Ray is currently Julius Silver Professor in the Faculty of Arts and Science, and Professor of Economics at New York University. He is Company-editor of the American Economic Review. Ray has held long-term positions at Stanford University, the Indian Statistical Institute, and at Boston University, where he was Director of the Institute for Economic Development.
He has held visiting appointments at Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the People"s University of China in Beijing, and the London School of Economics.
He is a Research Affiliate of the Instituto de Análisis Económico in Barcelona.
Fellow Econometric Society (associate editor Econometrica 1989-1992).
Married Monica Dasgupta, June 25, 1992. Children: Timir Datta, Mihir Datta.