Professor Amit Shovon Ray is a Professor of Economics at the Centre for International Trade and Development (CITD) of the School of International Studies in Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He was educated at Presidency College, Calcutta and at the University of Oxford from where he received his DPhil in Economics in 1988. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Public Health, London in 2007. He is a Member of the Independent Commission on Development and Health in India since 2008.

During his 26 years of academic career, Professor Ray has held teaching and research positions at premier Universities and Institutions in India and abroad, including Oxford University Institute of Economics and Statistics, International Food Policy Research Institute (Washington DC), Jawaharlal Nehru University (New Delhi), University of Calcutta (Kolkata) and Indian Institute of Technology (Delhi). He has been a Consultant to various national and international bodies, including the Planning Commission (Government of India), The World Bank, and UNCTAD. 

Professor Ray's research has primarily focussed on issues of Technology and R&D, Intellectual Property Rights, Economics of Health, Pharmaceutical Industry, WTO-TRIPS, Foreign Direct Investment and a wide range of policy issues pertaining to India's development experience. He has over 60 research publications, including 28 refereed articles in reputed international journals and edited volumes, 5 books and short monographs and 32 working (discussion) papers/research reports. He has been actively engaged in research collaborations involving multi-country partners and has been invited to deliver lectures and present his research at seminars and conferences across the world spanning 18 countries over five continents: Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Japan, Jordan, Nepal, Pakistan, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, UK and USA.