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Amartya Sen
Amartya Sen, born in Santiniketan, India, in 1933, began his studies at Presidency College in Calcutta. He later on continued his academic education at Trinity College in Cambridge, Great Britain, where he also received his Ph.D. Sen has a particular interest in “the most impoverished members of society” and his research focuses on welfare distribution and poverty. In line with his theoretical approach to welfare measurement he has also investigated the underlying economic mechanisms of famines in empirical studies. “For his contributions to welfare economics” he was awarded the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in 1998. Retired as Master of Trinity College in 2003, Amartya Sen is now Lamont University Professor and Professor of Economics and Philosophy at Harvard University.
