Amartya Sen

Amartya Sen, born in 1933 in Shantiniketan, India, is an Indian economist and philosopher. He taught in, among other places, Calcutta, Delhi, London, Oxford and at Harvard University; until 2004, he was also Master of Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1998 he received the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, followed by the Meister Eckhart Prize in 2007 and the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade in 2020. His fields of work include welfare and development economics, social choice and decision theory, and questions of social inequality and justice. The Sen Index, a measure of poverty and inequality, is named after him.