Amartya Sen
Amartya Sen is an economist and philosopher. In 1998 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics for his work in welfare economics. He is well known for his work on issues related to hunger, human development theories, social choice theory, economic and social justice, and the mechanisms underlying poverty. From 1972 he has worked in India, the United Kingdom and the United States. He is the author of an index that measures poverty based on the well-being of individuals, the Human Development Index, used by many researchers, and has been a professor of Economics and Political Economy and Philosophy at the universities of Harvard Universities, Oxford, London School of Economics, Delhi School of Economics and Jadavpur University in Calcutta. He is a member of the Trinity College in Cambridge and was awarded the Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science in 2017. He is considered the leading Indian economist and one of the leading thinkers and intellectuals in the world. His most recognized work is Poverty and Famines: An Essay on Entitlements and Deprivation (1981).