Amartya Sen photographed in the dining hall of Trinity College Cambridge, of which he was Master.
Amartya sen, born 1933
Nobel Prize Winning economist
Amartya Kumar Sen CH is an Indian economist and philosopher, who since 1972 has taught and worked in the United Kingdom and the United States. Sen has made contributions to welfare economics, social choice theory, economic and social justice, economic theories of famines, decision theory, development economics, public health, and measures of well-being of countries. He is currently a Thomas W. Lamont University Professor, and Professor of Economics and Philosophy at Harvard University. He formerly served as Master of Trinity College at the University of Cambridge. He was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1998 and India's Bharat Ratna in 1999 for his work in welfare economics. Amartya sen is married to Emma Georgina Rothschild, who serves as the Jeremy and Jane Knowles Professor of History at Harvard University.