Mukesh Eswaran is professor emeritus in the Vancouver School of Economics at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. He is a Fellow of the Canadian Economics Association, an Associate of Theoretical Research in Economic Development and a Senior Fellow of the Bureau of Research and Economic Analysis of Development. His research revolves around the application of economic theory to understand economic phenomena. Primary areas of his interest are economic development and the economics of gender, as well as evolutionary economics and, more recently, the economics of religion.