Mr. Arjun Kumar Sengupta
Member of Parliament
Party: Independent

Q1A, Haus Khas Enclave
New Delhi. 110016

Mr. Arjun Kumar Sengupta represents the state of West Bengal in the Rajya Sabha. He is an independent member of the Upper House. He sits on the important Parliamentary Committee on External Affairs.

In his public life, Mr. Sengupta has occupied various positions of extreme importance. Between 1993 and 1998, he was the Member Secretary (in the rank of Minister of State) of the Planning Commission, Government of India. Between 1990 and 1993, he served as the Ambassador of India to the European Union in Brussels. Between 1985 and 1990, he wsa the Executive Director and Special Advisor to the Managing Director, International Monetary Fund in Washington, DC; and between 1981 and 1984, he served as the Special Secretary to the then Prime Minister of India.

An economist and diplomat by profession, Mr. Sengupta did his B.A., M.A., Ph.D. (Economics) from Presidency College, Kolkata and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA, respectively.

Mr. Sengupta has written various articles in journals and leading newspapers. He has the famous Reforms, Equity and the IMF to his credit. For sometime, he had been teaching and lecturing on Human Rights and Economic Development at Harvard University, Essex University, and Oslo University. A widely travelled person, Mr. Sengupta was also an Independent Expert for the Human Rights Commission, Geneva on (a) The Right to Development (1999-2004) and (b) Human Rights and Extreme Poverty (2004-2006)