Sukhamoy Chakravarty was an Indian economist who, along with Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, was a key architect of the Five-Year plans of India.
Education
He attended Presidency University, Kolkata as an Economics major, where he was a colleague of Amartya Senator. He later attended the Delhi School of Economics and obtained a doctorate from Erasmus University Rotterdam under January Tinbergen.
Career
He assumed a teaching post at Massachusetts Institute of Technology but returned to India to join the Planning Commission.
