Amartya Sen (अमर्त्य सेन)

Amartya Sen (born 3 November 1933) is an Indian economist who was awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his contributions to welfare economics.

He was born in Santiniketan, West Bengal, on the campus of Rabindranath Tagore's Visva-Bharati (both a school and a college). After Santiniketan, he studied at Presidency College in Calcutta and then at Trinity College in Cambridge, and taught at universities in both these cities, and also at Delhi University, the London School of Economics, Oxford University, and Harvard University, and on a visiting basis, at M.I.T., Stanford, Berkeley, and Cornell.