Amartya Sen

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Amartya Sen
Sen in 2012
Born	Amartya Kumar Sen (1933-11-03) 3 November 1933 (age 90) Santiniketan, Bengal, British India
Spouses	Nabaneeta Dev ​ ​ (m. 1958; div. 1976)​ Eva Colorni ​ ​ (m. 1978; died 1985)​ Emma Rothschild ​ (m. 1991)​
Children	4, including Nandana and Antara
Academic career
Institutions	List Harvard University, University of Cambridge, London School of Economics, Jadavpur University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cornell University, University of Oxford, Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University, University of California, Berkeley
Field	Welfare economics Social choice theory Development economics
School or tradition	Capability approach
Alma mater	University of Calcutta (BA) Trinity College, Cambridge (BA, MA, PhD)
Doctoral students	Felicia Knaul, Ingrid Robeyns
Influences	Gautama Buddha, Adam Smith, John Rawls, John Maynard Keynes, B. R. Ambedkar, Kenneth Arrow, Piero Sraffa, Maurice Dobb, Mary Wollstonecraft,[1] Karl Marx[2]
Contributions	Human development theory Entitlement approach to famine[3]
Awards	Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (1998) Bharat Ratna (1999) National Humanities Medal (2012)[4] Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science (2017)
Information at IDEAS / RePEc

Amartya Kumar Sen (Bengali: [ˈɔmortːo ˈʃen]; born 3 November 1933) is an Indian economist and philosopher, who has taught and worked in the United Kingdom and the United States since 1972. 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.^[5] He formerly served as Master of Trinity College at the University of Cambridge.^[6] In 1998, he was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences,^[7] and in 1999, India's highest civilian honour — Bharat Ratna, for his contribution to welfare economics. The German Publishers and Booksellers Association awarded him the 2020 Peace Prize of the German Book Trade for his pioneering scholarship addressing issues of global justice and combating social inequality in education and healthcare.