Bio

Anthony P. D’Costa is the Eminent Scholar in Global Studies and a Professor of Economics in the College of
Business at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. Previously he was the Chair and Professor of Contemporary
Indian Studies and Director of Development Studies at the University of Melbourne. From 2008- 13 he was the A.P.
Moller- Maersk Foundation Chair and Professor of Indian Studies at the Copenhagen Business School. From 1990
until 2013, he was a Professor of Comparative International Development at the University of Washington, Tacoma
and Seattle. He also taught at the National University of Singapore, Bordeaux Ecole de Management, and the
Indian Institute of Management, Kolkata.
 
He has published on the political economy industrial change and economic development in India and Asia. Of his
twelve books, his most recent are Changing Contexts and Shifting Roles of the Indian State: New Perspectives on
Development Dynamics (coedited Springer 2019), The Land Question in India: State, Dispossession, and Capitalist
Transition (coedited, OUP, 2017), International Mobility, Global Capitalism, and Changing Structures of
Accumulation: Transforming the Japan- India IT Relationship (Routledge, 2016, supported by Abe Fellowship), and
After- Development Dynamics: South Korea’s Contemporary Engagement with Asia (edited, OUP, 2015). He has
been a fellow of the American Institute of Indian Studies, Fulbright- Hays, Korea Foundation, UN World Institute of
Development Economics Research, Helsinki; Japan Foundation, and the East West Center in Honolulu. Currently he
is researching India’s employment challenges, wealth and inequality, and Indian business under “compressed
capitalism”, and the space economy.