Abhijit Banerjee

Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee (Bengali: অভিজিৎ বিনায়ক বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায়; born February 21, 1961) is an Indian-American economist.^[6] Banerjee shared the 2019 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with his wife Esther Duflo and fellow economist Michael Kremer, "for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty."^[7][8] He is the Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Abhijit Banerjee
Born	Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee (1961-02-21) February 21, 1961 (age 64) Mumbai, India[1][2]
Nationality	American
Education	Presidency College, Kolkata University of Calcutta (BA) Jawaharlal Nehru University (MA) Harvard University (PhD)
Spouse(s)	Arundhati Tuli (divorced) Esther Duflo ​ (m. 2015)​
Awards	Nobel Memorial Prize (2019)[3]
Scientific career
Fields	Development economics
Institutions	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Doctoral advisor	Eric Maskin
Doctoral students	Esther Duflo[4] Dean Karlan[5] Benjamin Jones

He along with wife Esther Duflo are the sixth married couple to jointly win a Nobel Prize.^[9]