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Prof Gupta completed a PhD degree at the University of Connecticut’s Department of Economics in 2005. He joined the Department of Economics at the University of Pretoria as a senior lecturer in 2005 and got promoted to an associate professor in 2007. He secured a BSc (honours) degree from the R.K.M.R. College in Narendrapur and an MSc degree from the University of Calcutta. His academic interests are mainly monetary theory and policy, business cycles, and time series econometrics.