Profile
- First Vice Chancellor, Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Tamil Nadu
- Chairman, Search Committee, Appointment of Vice Chancellor, Bharathidasan University
- Member, State Planning Commission, Govt. of Tamil Nadu
- Vice President / Executive Committee Member, Indian Institute of Public Administration, New Delhi
- Executive Committee Member, North Eastern Hill University, Shillong (Appointed by President of India)
- Director, Institute for Advanced Studies & Research (Appointed by Governor of Tamil Nadu)
- Senior Visiting Member, Linacre College, University of Oxford (2000–Present)
- Executive President, Oxford Cambridge Harvard Foundation (OCHF)
- Director, Reserve Bank of India & IDBI (1969–1974)
- Editor, The New Economist
Director, Institute for Advanced Studies and Research (IASR), Chennai.600102. Founded by His Excellency Mr Prabhudas Patwari, incorporating Sardar Patel Center for Social Economic Studies (SPCS) (1977–);Emeritus Professor of Economics, University of Madras(1988–); (B.16 Sept.1926) Married Yasodha, Vice Chancellor, Mother Teresa Women’s University(1999-2002); One son: Dr V S Sambandan, MA, MBA(UK), M.Phil., Ph.D, Two Daughters: Dr Lakshmi, MBBS, FRCS (UK); Anandhi, BE, MBA. Education: University of Madras; London School of Economics & Political Science; University of Economic Sciences, Berlin; University of Oxford. Awards: Prizes in Oratorical Contests in English & Tamil, British Council Bursary at LSE, London,1963; Frere Exhibitioner, University of Oxford,1964;Oppenheimer Award, University of Oxford,1965;Best University Teacher Award, Tamil Nadu Govt., The Paul Appleby Award for Distinguished Services in Public Administration(2012)
Experience: Lecturer, Dr Alagappa College, Karaikudi,1950-52; Assistant Professor, Pachaiyappa’s College,Madras,1952-54;Professor & Head, Dept. of Economics, Sir Theagaroya College, Madras,1954-58;Reader 1958-61,Professor of Economics 1961-1987,University of Madras; Emeritus Professor 1988—; Head, Depts of Journalism, Statistics, Agro-Economic Research Centre, South East Asia Area Studies & Member-Director, Madras University Planning Board,1975-81; First Vice Chancellor, Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Tirunvelveli,India,1989-91. Member, State Planning Commission, Govt. of Tamil Nadu,1972-81;1996-2001;Vice President / Executive Committee Member, Indian Institute of Public Administration, (IIPA), New Delhi, 110002,
Visiting Professor/ Lecturer/Researcher Visitor etc: London School of Economics and Political Science ; Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of Oxford & London; Universities of Cambridge, Sussex, London, Reading, York, Princeton, Stanford, Boston, Michigan, Berlin, San Diego, New York & Harvard. Director: Central Board of the Reserve Bank of India, Industrial Development Bank of India 1969-74. Dr AR & AL Centre for Commonwealth and International Studies (DARALCS), School of Legal Economics(SOLE), Centre for Human Settlements Economics (CHSE), International Centre for Research in Higher Education(ICRHE); President: Indian Society of Industrial and Fiscal Economics,1972–; Indian Economic Association,1979; Tamil Nadu Economic Association,1961—; Indian Economic History Association,2002–;President, Thiru Vi Ka-Dr Mu Va Educational Trust (founding Member 1955 onwards); Member, Editorial Board, Indian Economic Journal 1969–;Editor: :Indian Journal of Economic Sciences, Poruliyal,1972-3;1983-4,2013, Thiru Vi Ka Review of Media and Journalism Member, Academic Council, Senate, Faculty of Arts, etc, University of Madras,1961-87;Committees of the University Grants Commission, Union Planning Commission etc. Executive Committee, Indian Institute of Public Administration, New Delhi,1992-2001; Executive Council, North Eastern Hill University, Shillong,1987-90; Chairman:Task Forces/Committees on (i) Human Resources;(ii) Fiscal Policy;(iii)Rural Development; (iv) Education (v)Sports (vi) Art and Culture, State Planning Commission,Govt.TN,1972-81;1996-2001. Trained over 85 candidates for M.Litt., M.Phil, and Ph.D. degrees in Indian and foreign universities. Executive President: Oxford Cambridge Harvard Foundation Trust (OCHF). Mg. Editor- Journal of Indian Economic literature; The New Economist.
Publications Methodology of Research in Social Sciences,1962,1974,2013, 2015; Report of the Cost of Living Index Numbers, Govt of Madras, 1965;Farm Management Studies, Govt of India, 1967; Peasant Organization in Thanjavur, Government of India, 1969; Some South Indian Villages,1971, 2013; Agricultural Development of India,1972; Social Development Planning, 1974; Studies in Welfare Economics,1974; Perspective Plan for the University of Madras,1975;Logic and Scientific Methods, (in Tamil) with Prof T. M. P. Mahadevan 1975;Indian Economic Thought and Policy,1976; Green Revolution in India, 1976; General Theory of Change from Poverty to Plenty,1979, 1989,2009,2013; Scope and Method of Legal Economics,1983; Higher Education in the University of Madras, 1983; Economics of New International Economic Order, 1987; Landmarks in Public Administration of Tamil Nadu,1996; Meritorious Administrator: V.Karthikeyan, 2000; Great Famine,1876-78,(1965-2001, LSE, London), 2011,2013 ,Economics of Dr Vera Anstey of LSE.(2001); The Institutional Theory of Economic Development :An Appraisal of Global Economic Thought.2003;Methodology of the Life and Times of PRB,2003;Economics of Nobel Laureate J.R.Hicks (2004); Economics of Tiruvalluvar (in Tamil), 1976, 1991, 2008, IASR Press, Chennai;.. History of Madras 1600-1900 (Madras Gazetteer, British Council, 2008);Higher Education in Madras,1600-2000(Madras Gazetteer, British Council, 2008), Higher Education in the United Kingdom, United States of America and India, in collaborations with Prof Derek Bok, President of Harvard University, Mass, USA (in Progress). Biography of IIPA (1955- 2015) (in Progress)