Sanjeev Goyal

Sanjeev Goyal FBA is an Indian-British economist, best known for his pioneering research on networks.

Sanjeev Goyal
Goyal in March 2007
Alma mater	Hindu College, Delhi Delhi University IIM Ahmedabad Cornell University
Known for	Economic theory Networks
Awards	National Talent Scholar Gold Medal, Delhi Univ. A.D White Fellow, Cornell
Scientific career
Fields	Microeconomics
Institutions	Erasmus University University of London Essex University Cambridge University
Doctoral advisor	David Easley Lawrence E. Blume Tapan Mitra Karl Shell

He is currently Arthur C. Pigou Professor of Economics at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge. He received a BA (Honours, 1983) from Delhi University and an MA (1989) and PhD (1990) from Cornell University, all in economics.^[1] His book, Connections: an introduction to the economics of networks, was published by Princeton University Press in 2007; his second book, Networks: An Economics Approach, was published by MIT Press in 2023.

Sanjeev Goyal is a Fellow of the British Academy and Fellow of the Econometric Society. He was the founding Director of the Cambridge-INET Institute (2012–2014) and Chair of the Cambridge Economics Faculty (2014–2018).