Amartya Sen is Thomas W. Lamont University Professor and Professor of Economics and Philosophy at Harvard University. Renowned in Business & Economics, he earned a B.A. in economics and mathematics from Presidency College, Calcutta, and a B.A. in pure economics from Trinity College, Cambridge. His distinguished career includes positions as Professor of Economics at Jadavpur University, Calcutta; Delhi School of Economics; London School of Economics; and Drummond Professor of Political Economy at Oxford University. Until 2004, he served as Master of Trinity College, Cambridge. Sen has presided over the Econometric Society (1984), Indian Economic Association (1989), American Economic Association (1994), and International Economic Association. He is Senior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows and Honorary Advisor to OXFAM. His research encompasses social choice theory, economic theory, ethics and political philosophy, welfare economics, theory of measurement, decision theory, development economics, public health, and gender studies.

Sen’s influential publications, translated into more than thirty languages, include Choice of Techniques (1960), Growth Economics (1970), Collective Choice and Social Welfare (1970), On Economic Inequality (1973, 1997), Poverty and Famines (1981), Choice, Welfare and Measurement (1982), Commodities and Capabilities (1985), The Standard of Living (1987), On Ethics and Economics (1987), Hunger and Public Action (1989, with Jean Drèze), Inequality Re-examined (1992), Development as Freedom (1999), Rationality and Freedom (2002), The Argumentative Indian (2005), Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny (2006), The Idea of Justice (2009), and An Uncertain Glory: India and Its Contradictions (2013, with Jean Drèze). These works address poverty, famines, inequality, capabilities, and justice. Sen received the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences (1998) for contributions to welfare economics; Bharat Ratna (India); National Humanities Medal (USA); Commandeur de la Légion d’Honneur (France); Ordem do Mérito Científico (Brazil); Honorary Companion of Honour (UK); Aztec Eagle (Mexico); Edinburgh Medal (UK); George Marshall Award (USA); and Eisenhower Medal (USA).

Professional Email: asen@fas.harvard.edu