The Faculty of Economics has paid tribute to Dr Singh, who died in December aged 92.
Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh led India from 2004 to 2014 and was considered the architect of India's economic liberalisation.
He was one of India’s longest-serving prime ministers and India’s first non-Hindu prime minister. Singh was known for his Cambridge blue turbans, his probity and his modest and self-deprecating simplicity. He studied economics at Cambridge as an undergraduate, earning a First Class degree in 1957.
Sriya Iyer, Professor of Economics and Social Science at the Faculty of Economics, said: “Dr Manmohan Singh was a great economist, visionary, scholar and statesman of India. Beginning with the Adam Smith Prize which he won as a student during his time studying economics in Cambridge in the 1950s, as an Honorary Fellow of St John’s College, and in his many roles concerned with financial and economic governance, culminating as India’s Prime Minister, Dr Singh quietly and respectfully championed the right to information, work, education, land and tolerance.”
Read more on the Faculty of Economics website.
