Amartya Sen

Amartya Kumar Sen, born 3 November 1933, is an Indian economist and philosopher who has taught and worked in England and the United States since 1972 and received the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 1998 for his contributions to welfare economics; he has also made major contributions to social choice theory, economic and social justice, economic theories of famines, decision theory, development economics, public health and the measurement of well-being. He is currently the Thomas W. Lamont University Professor and professor of economics and philosophy at Harvard University, having previously served as master of Trinity College at the University of Cambridge; India awarded him its highest civilian honor, the Bharat Ratna, in 1999 for his contribution to welfare economics, and the German Publishers and Booksellers Association awarded him its 2020 Peace Prize of the German Book Trade for his pioneering scholarship addressing global justice and social inequality in education and health care.