Prasanta Kumar Pattanaik[2] (born 5 April 1943),[3] is an Indian-American[4] emeritus professor at the Department of Economics at the University of California.
Along with Amartya Sen and Kenneth Arrow, Pattanaik is an advisory editor for the journal Social Choice and Welfare.
[5] He is a recipient of the Padma Shri award of 2020 by the Government of India in Literature and Education.
[6] Pattanaik gained his degree in economics from Utkal University, Odisha, India.
[7] Pattanaik studied under, the Nobel Prize winning economist, Amartya Sen and his "leadership role" in the study of social choice theory has been acknowledged by Sen.[8] Pattanaik is one of the series editors for the Springer series Studies in Choice and Welfare,[9] which included being co-editor of Rational choice and social welfare theory and applications: essays in honor of Kotaro Suzumura.