Sanjeev Goyal FBA is an Indian-British economist, best known for his pioneering research on networks.

He is currently Arthur C. Pigou Professor of Economics at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge. He received a BA (Honours, 1983) from Delhi University and an MA (1989) and PhD (1990) from Cornell University, all in economics.^[1] His book, Connections: an introduction to the economics of networks, was published by Princeton University Press in 2007; his second book, Networks: An Economics Approach, was published by MIT Press in 2023.

Sanjeev Goyal is a Fellow of the British Academy and Fellow of the Econometric Society. He was the founding Director of the Cambridge-INET Institute (2012–2014) and Chair of the Cambridge Economics Faculty (2014–2018).

• V. Bala and S. Goyal (1998), Learning From Neighbors, Review of Economic Studies.
• V. Bala and S. Goyal (2000), A Non-Cooperative Model of Network Formation, Econometrica.
• S. Goyal and J.L. Moraga (2001), R&D Networks, RAND Journal.
• S. Goyal and S. Joshi (2003), Networks of Collaboration in Oligopoly, Games and Econ Beh.
• S. Goyal and F. Vega-Redondo (2005), Network formation and social coordination, Games and Econ Beh..
• S.Goyal, M. vd Leij and J-L Moraga (2006), Economics: An Emerging Small World, Journal of Political Economy.
• S. Goyal and F. Vega-Redondo (2007), Structural Holes in Social networks, Journal of Economic Theory.
• A. Galeotti and S. Goyal (2009), Influencing and influencers: a theory of strategic diffusion, RAND Journal.
• A. Galeotti, S. Goyal, M. Jackson, F. Vega-Redondo, L. Yariv (2010), Network Games, Review of Economic Studies.
• A. Galeotti and S. Goyal (2010), The Law of the Few, American Economic Review.
• S. Goyal and M. Kearns (2012), Competitive Contagion in Networks, Symposium on the Theory of Computing.
• L. Ductor, M.Fafchamps, S. Goyal and M. v.d.Leij (2014), Social Networks & Research Output, Rev of Econ and Stats.
• S. Goyal and A. Vigier (2014), Attack, defence and contagion in networks, Review of Economic Studies.
• M. Dziubinski and S. Goyal (2016), How do you defend a network?, Theoretical Economics.
• J. Gagnon and S. Goyal (2017), Networks, markets and inequality, American Economic Review
• P. Dasgupta and S. Goyal (2019), Narrow Identities, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics.
• A. Galeotti, B. Golub and S. Goyal (2020), Targeting Interventions in Networks, Econometrica.
• L. Ductor, S. Goyal and A. Prummer (2023), Gender and Collaboration, Review of Econ. and Stats.

• Goyal's official page;