Amartya Sen

Amartya Kumar Sen is an Indian economist and philosopher who has worked and taught in the United Kingdom and the United States since 1972. His wide-ranging scholarship has shaped welfare economics, social choice theory, economic and social justice, theories of famine, decision theory, development economics, public health, and ways of measuring national well-being.

He holds the positions of Thomas W. Lamont University Professor and Professor of Economics and Philosophy at Harvard University. Previously, he was Master of Trinity College at the University of Cambridge. In 1998 he received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, and in 1999 India honored him with the Bharat Ratna, both recognizing his contributions to welfare economics. In 2020, the German Publishers and Booksellers Association presented him with the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, citing his groundbreaking work on global justice and his efforts to combat social inequality in education and healthcare.