Sukhamoy Chakraborty, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Sukhamoy Chakraborty

Indian economist

Date of Birth: 26-Jul-1934

Date of Death: 22-Aug-1990

Profession: economist

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Sukhamoy Chakravarty (26 July 1934 – 22 August 1990) was an Indian economist who, along with Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, was a key architect of the Five-Year plans of India.
He attended Ballygunge Government High School, Calcutta and Presidency College, Kolkata when it was under University of Calcutta as an Economics major, where he was a batchmate of Amartya Sen.
He later attended the Delhi School of Economics and obtained a doctorate from Erasmus University Rotterdam under Jan Tinbergen.
He assumed a teaching post at Massachusetts Institute of Technology but returned to India to join the Planning Commission.
He was a professor of economics at the Delhi School of Economics.