Amartya Sen

Nobel Prize-winning economist

Amartya Sen is a renowned Indian philosopher and economist. He was born in Santiniketan, West Bengal, and educated at Presidency College Calcutta, and the University of Cambridge. He has taught economics at several Indian institutions, Oxford, LSE, and Harvard. Whilst at Oxford he held the positions of Professor of Economics at Nuffield College, and then Drummond Professor of Political Economy. He is currently Professor of Economics and Philosophy at Harvard.

Sen's work in the field of welfare economics earned him the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 1998. He has also received a number of other awards, including the Bharat Ratna (an Indian civil award), the International Humanist award, and the Eisenhower Medal for Leadership and Service. His books include Collective Choice and Social Welfare (1970), Development as Freedom (1999), and >i>The Idea of Justice (2009).