Meghnad Jagdishchandra Desai, Baron Desai (born
10 July 1940) is a
British economist, writer and
Labour politician.Born in
Vadodara, Desai grew up with his four siblings — two brothers and two sisters. He went straight to secondary school at the age of five, matriculated at 14, was an Honours student before he was 18, had a master’s degree before age 20, and a PhD at age 22.After he secured a master's degree from the Mumbai School of Economics (then Bombay School of Economics), his parents wanted him to become an
IAS officer. But the qualifying age was 21, and he was still 19. In between, he won a scholarship to
University of Pennsylvania. He left India in August 1960 to move to the US.
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