Gustav Papanek

Gustav Papanek is Professor Emeritus at Boston University and President of the Boston Institute for Developing Economies. He is an economist. He was Director at Harvard University Development Advisory Service. He was a consultant to the World Bank and ADB and an advisor to prime ministers, presidents and ministers in Argentina, Bangladesh, Egypt, Greece, India, Iran, Korea, Malaysia, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Venezuela. He specialises in income mobility of the poor and transitions from a controlled to a market economy. He pursued his doctoral studies in economics at Harvard University.