Abhijit Banerjee is an Indian origin. Banerjee is an Indian-American economist. He is currently the Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Simultaneously Abhijeet Banerjee is the co-founder of Abdul Latif Jamil Poverty Action Lab, a research associate of Innovation for Poverty Action and the member of the Consortium on Financial Systems and Poverty.
Indian-American economist Abhijit Banerjee has been awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics. This time three economists have been jointly awarded. The two names with Abhijeet Banerjee on this list are Esther Duflo, wife of economist Abhijeet Banerjee. The third name in this list is Michael Kramer, an economist of American descent and associated with the American Academy of Art and Sciences.
Some information about Abhijeet Banerjee
Abhijeet Banerjee is originally from West Bengal, India. He was born on 21 February 1961 in Mumbai. Both his father and mother were professors of economics. Abhijeet Banerjee did his studies from South Point School and Presidency College, Kolkata. He obtained an Economics degree from Presidency College. After this, he moved to Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi in 1983 and did his masters from there. After this he went to Howard University for doing his PhD.
