Sir Partha Sarathi Dasgupta,
FRS,
FBA (born 17 November 1942), is the
Frank Ramsey Professor Emeritus of Economics at the
University of Cambridge, United Kingdom; Fellow of
St John's College, Cambridge; and Professorial Research Fellow at the
University of Manchester. He was born in
Dhaka, present-day
Bangladesh, then moved to present-day India, and is the son of the noted economist A. K. Dasgupta. He is married to Carol Dasgupta, who is a
psychotherapist. His father-in-law was the Nobel Laureate
James Meade. Partha and Carol Dasgupta have three children, Zubeida Dasgupta-Clark (an educational psychologist), Shamik (a philosophy professor at Princeton) and Aisha (who works on reproductive health in poor countries).