ISSUE 38: JULY–AUGUST 2005

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INTECH loses a friend with death of Sanjaya Lall

Sanjaya Lall

Current and former staff members at UNU Institute of New Technologies are mourning the death of Sanjaya Lall, the eminent academic who cast a giant shadow in the field of trade and competitiveness, globalization and its economic consequences, industrial policy and industrialization, and innovation and technological capabilities.

Born in Patna, India, Lall graduated from Oxford and was based there from 1968. At the time of his sudden death on June 18, he was professor of development economics. 

"Sanjaya was a long-time associate of UNU-INTECH," said Lyn Mytelka, former director of the institute. "The breadth of his expertise and the rootedness of his intellectual strengths in long term research in Africa and Asia will be sorely missed. So, too, will his soft manner and keen interest in helping others. It is hard to believe that he has gone."

Rajah Rasiah, professor of technology and innovation policy at the University of Malaya and a distinguished senior research fellow with INTECH, described Professor Lall's death as "the passing of an academic legend."

"The world has lost one of its most potent appropriators of knowledge." he said. "Fortunately for us, although he is no longer with us, Sanjaya Lall’s inspiring works and the hundreds of prodigies he mentored unselfishly will now carry the torch of development economics for many decades to come."

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