Bangalore: In a rare distinction, well-known economist P R Bramhananda has been elected president of the International Economic Association (IEA), the professional body of all economic associations of the world, at its ongoing Lisbon conference.

Bramhananda said this has been conveyed to him by the Indian Economic Association president C T Kurien who has received a message from the IEA about his election as honorary president of the body.

In a statement, he said he was the fourth Indian to be conferred this honour after Nobel Prize winner Amartya Kumar Sen and late Prof C N Vakil and late Prof Sukhamoy Chakravarthy.

A former president of the Indian Economic Association, Bramhananda was also earlier Executive Member of the IEA for six years. He was also the Director of the School of Economics, University of Mumbai, and is presently Managing Editor of The Indian Economic Journal, the quarterly journal of the Indian Economic Association.

PTI