He quit the World Bank following disagreements over the conditions it and the International Monetary Fund imposed following the East Asian currency crisis.
His recent book Globalisation and its Discontents is a bestseller. The Nobel laureate is a professor of economics and finance at Columbia University in New York.
He was last spotted strolling around the WSF venue in Goregaon, north Mumbai, shooting some keepsakes.
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