Abhijit Banerjee, Nobel Prize in Economics, 2019

Abhijit Binayak Banerjee (Bengali: অভিজিৎ বিনায়ক বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায়; born 1961) is an Indian American economist of Bengali heritage. Banerjee shared the 2019 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with his wife Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer, "for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty." He is the Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Banerjee co-founder of Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (along with economists Esther Duflo and Sendhil Mullainathan). He is a research affiliate of Innovations for Poverty Action, and a member of the Consortium on Financial Systems and Poverty. Banerjee was a president of the Bureau for the Research in the Economic Analysis of Development, a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, a research fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research, an international research fellow of the Kiel Institute, fellow at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a fellow at the Econometric Society. He also has been a Guggenheim Fellow and an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow. He is the co-author of Poor Economics. Lastly, he also serves on the academic advisory board of Plaksha University, an upcoming science and technology university in India.

Awards:

• 2004: Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• 2009: Infosys Prize in the social sciences category of economics
• 2012: Gerald Loeb Award Honorable Mention for Business Book
• 2014: Bernhard-Harms-Prize from the Kiel Institute for the World Economy.
• 2019: Export-Import Bank of India's 34th Commencement Day Annual Lecture on Redesigning Social Policy
• 2019: Nobel Prize in Economics, together with Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer