Gouranga Gopal Das is at present working as a Full-Time Tenured Professor at the Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Business at Hanyang University ERICA Campus, South Korea (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanyang_University ). The University is one of the top-ranked in the nation with a continuous improvement in its global ranking (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanyang_University#University_ranking_in_the_world ). Prof. Das’s Undergraduate and Post-Graduate education was at Jadavpur University (Calcutta, India) and Jawaharlal Nehru University (New Delhi, India) respectively, and PhD in Economics was from Monash University, Clayton (Melbourne, Australia). Dr. Das did his Post-Doctoral research at the University of Florida, Gainesville, USA.

Gouranga Das is a Development Economist with particular interest in exploring the issues of growth and development in the context of the economies already integrated into the global trade and those, pursuing their efforts to catch up with the forces of globalization. Under the broad spectrum mentioned above, his specific research interest emphasizes on the issues related to: (i) Growth and Technological Change; (ii) Trade, International Economic Integration and Transmission of Technological Innovation; (iii) Human Capital Formation, Skill Acquisition and Adoption of Technology; (iv) Nexus of Trade, Technology and Environment in the wake of International Environmental Policy and Laws regulating trade flows. This has some common ground with his teaching interests also.

His research has a focus on economic policy issues in developing economies. In particular, he specializes on the factors underlying different facets of trade, its manifestations, and differential impacts across nations. His research explores issues such as, technology diffusion, absorptive capacity, factors underlying assimilation and its deficiency, and catch-up problems, skill-unskilled labor, biotechnology-biofuel trade-offs for food (in-) security, productivity dynamics, etc.

​Currently, his research—in line with previous strands of published works—lies in firm heterogeneity, its sources, and productivity differences for heterogeneous firms; skill-unskilled wage gap and trade-versus-technology; trade and corruption; land deals and development problems; inclusive growth (selective aspects) and sustainability issues. 

To explore the interplay of different economic factors between and within nations, he employs theoretical models as well as Applied (Computable) General Equilibrium models. He is an active researcher and member of the leading Global Trade Model (Global Trade Analysis Project — GTAP), Center for Global Trade Analysis, Purdue University in Illinois USA, and also Center of Policy Studies, Victoria University (previously located at Monash University), Melbourne, Australia. 

Recently in October 2025, Professor Das has been awarded the HONORARY CITIZENSHIP AWARD OF SEOUL for his contribution to the discipline through Teaching, Research, Publication in International and National Arena and thus, enriching the socio-economic life via engagement in educational activities--"Enhanced Seoul’s academic standing through academic research activities". 

https://english.seoul.go.kr/policy/international-exchange/honorary-citizenship/ 

https://www.newshyu.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=1020397   

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Also, he received SPRINGER NATURE EDITOR OF DISTINCTION AWAD IN 2025 FOR HIS EXCELLENCE IN EDITORIAL WORKS. AWARDED BY LEADINGPUBLISHER SPRINGER NATURE FROM GERMANY (ORIGINALLY). 

https://www.newshyu.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=1019044   

Gouranga worked at:

1. National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (India),

2. International Management Institute (India),

3. Project Associate (1994) for the Embassy of the U.S.A., New Delhi, India.

4. University of Florida (USA)

5. Kyungpook National University (South Korea),

6. Honorary Research Associate at the Centre of Policy Studies at Monash University, Australia (Post-Graduate Publications Awardee).

7. International Monetary Fund, Washington DC, USA (Global Development Network Awardee);

8. University of Antwerp Erasmus Mundus Scholar (Belgium);

9. Auckland University of Technology (New Zealand);

10. United Nations University-World Institute of Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), Helsinki, Finland;

11. University of Oregon, Eugene, USA.

He has worked on several external projects such as, Korea Institute of International Economic Policy (KIEP) Project Commissioned Paper; EU-ASIA Dialogue Project (implemented by: East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore, and European Policy Centre, European Union Centre Singapore, and Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung e. V. (KAS).

Among the several recognitions/awards/scholarships, the important ones are:  

1. Global Labor Organization (GLO) Fellow—An international network and Virtual Platform on Labor, Germany,  https://glabor.org/ , (November 2022 onwards), https://glabor.org/fellows/?search_d17e5=das

2. Non-Resident Fellow, Centre for Development Economics and Sustainability (CDES) , Monash University, Melbourne, Clayton, Australia

3. Inductee in 2017-18 Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award, Who’s Who Publication, NY, USA. (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/320702046_2017_Albert_Nelson_Marquis_Lifetime_Achievement_Award )& https://wwlifetimeachievement.com/2018/05/24/gouranga-das/

4. Honorary Advisor. Infinite-Sum Modeling (Economic Modeling Research Team) (http://www.infsum.com/en/intro.php ) http://www.infsum.com/en/peopleshow.php?cid=109&id=583

5. In September 2016, Gouranga Das was  Awarded the Best Researcher by the Hanyang University Research Foundation.

6. "Cutting Edge in Development Thinking” program at Harvard Kennedy School Executive Education on, May 2017. John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, USA.

7. Attendance by Invitation in the 5th OECD World Forum on Statistics, Knowledge and Policy: Transforming Policy, Changing Lives (2015), Guadalajara, Mexico;

8. “Innovation for Economic Development”, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, USA (2014), (Faculty Chair: Professor Calestous Juma);

9. Scholarship for Economic Modeling Network (EcoMod), Washington DC, USA (March 2012): General Equilibrium Modeling Workshop/Course hosted by EcoMod Network in USA and Europe;

10. Featured in Marquis Who's Who in the World, 2009—2014/15, 26th /27th Edition—current edition, N.Y. USA (entry in page 594 in 26th Edition).

11. Award Finalist for the Global Development Awards Competition for 2006, Global Development Network, St. Petersburg, Russia. Awarded International Monetary Fund/Global Development Network "Visiting Fellowship Scholarship" in an open co

12. Best ( Distinguished) Researcher  Award  (2010), Hanyang University, South Korea (administered by Korea National Research Foundation via Hanyang University);

13. Recipient of ‘The Royal Economic Society, U.K.’ (RES) Small Conference Grant Fund, (2009);

14. International Monetary Fund/Global Development Network "Visiting Scholarship";

15. National Merit Scholarship awarded by Government of India.

He is widely published in international journals with high impact factors and h-index, such as: Journal of Policy Modelling, Journal of Asian Economics, CESIfo Working paper from Germany, Journal of Economic Policy Reform, World Economy, Scientific Analysis of Economics and Business, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Journal of Economic Development, Journal of Economic Integration, Review of World Economics, Forest policy and Economics, to name a few, and also, he contributed in editing Book, and invited Book Chapters in edited books. He is in Editorial board of some international journals, and works as referee/reviewer for international journals and conference. Recently, he has published a book from Springer Nature on Rwandan Economy (2020). Link: https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9789811550454​ 

Another Co-authored Book is from Cambridge University Press (Elements series) on Virtual Trade (2023).

Series Editor: Frontiers in South and Southeast Asian Development Research. Springer Nature. https://www.springer.com/series/17246